By Jen Heger - Breaking Celebrity News Assistant Managing Editor

During a seven year period the Church of Scientology has given a powerful lobbyist $590k to appeal to Congress on a range of issues from a threat of religious freedoms in foreign countries, 9/11 rescue workers, to immigration, according to documents reviewed exclusively by Breaking Celebrity News.

The Church Of Scientology hired The Mitchell Firm in 2003 to lobby politicians about issues important to the organization. Under federal law, the Lobbying Reports must be filed each quarter and are available to the public. Greg Mitchell, founder of The Mitchell Group is the former chief of staff of ex-Republican Congressman James Rogan of California.

In 2005, the Church pursued -- through their paid lobbyist -- funding of a controversial treatment of 9/11 rescue workers, which involved Tom Cruise. There was earmark funding request "submitted to to Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies for the New York Rescue Worker Detoxification Project in New York, New York." The organization was co-founded in 2003 by Cruise, and it treats rescue workers that inhaled toxic fumes and smoke from the September 11 World Trade Center terrorist attacks.  During an appearance on The Larry King Show, Cruise said he was concerned about the survivors of 9/11 getting cancer and other serious illnesses and said, "Doctors do not know how to diagnose chemical exposures ... You go to a doctor and now he's going to put you on more and more drugs, steroids and things that are ineffective."

According to the official website of the program, detoxification is "aprecise regimen that includes exercise, sauna bathing, and vit