I dont fully understand you statement-
Are you saying AMA reorganized as a parent lobbying corp with a nonprofit subsidiary hobby academy?
Are you saying nonprofit AMA lobbys the government, meaning we have one or more "lobbyist"s?
Are you saying our national voice hasnt bothered to actually register to lobby the fed, but is doing so?

I just dont understand what you mean by "our voice in national matters".
Just how much was spent "Lobbying" the fed in the past 10 years, I cant find it in the annual $report pages of MA.
Only ama to fed "make it happen" money I heard of was the NoReciepts $10k to ... uh... make 72mhz freqs happen back in the day