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All lobbying filings

Agencies lobbied

Every LD-2 filing lists the parts of government its lobbyists contacted. That is 406,958 mentions across 217 federal bodies, from the two chambers down to single bureaus.

Top spenders & firms Spend by issue

 Congress

The two chambers are named by 59% of all mentions. They sit here rather than on top of the agency ranking, where they would bury everything else.

  1. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 121,200 filings $8,845,319,502.61
  2. SENATE 119,575 filings $8,796,531,068.05

A filing reports one spending figure covering everything it did, including every agency it named. So the money beside an agency is the spend of the filings that named it, not money spent on that agency, and the agency totals overlap. "Spend" = reported income (fees) plus in-house lobbying expenses, counting only the latest version of each filing. Filing counts include later-amended filings.

 Agencies and other bodies 215
  1. White House Office 10,725 filings $2,093,348,775.59
  2. Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS) 8,513 filings $1,511,371,514.52
  3. Commerce, Dept of (DOC) 8,268 filings $2,002,063,737.54
  4. Treasury, Dept of 7,887 filings $2,151,633,563.69
  5. Defense, Dept of (DOD) 7,777 filings $1,102,445,831.77
  6. Transportation, Dept of (DOT) 6,679 filings $998,770,300.48
  7. Agriculture, Dept of (USDA) 6,569 filings $992,737,871.42
  8. Energy, Dept of 6,358 filings $1,265,573,780.55
  9. Executive Office of the President (EOP) 6,278 filings $1,442,734,818.48
  10. Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 5,965 filings $1,115,117,789.96
  11. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 5,923 filings $1,234,146,339.08
  12. U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) 5,707 filings $1,582,893,410.16
  13. State, Dept of (DOS) 4,909 filings $1,227,237,767.14
  14. Interior, Dept of (DOI) 4,642 filings $763,812,616.26
  15. Office of Management & Budget (OMB) 3,944 filings $900,374,780.99
  16. Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS) 3,497 filings $972,925,225.26
  17. Labor, Dept of (DOL) 3,209 filings $872,475,019.40
  18. Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers) 2,588 filings $284,198,680.96
  19. Education, Dept of 2,565 filings $502,588,677.08
  20. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) 2,392 filings $600,698,352.18
  21. Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) 1,857 filings $385,636,971.01
  22. Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD) 1,830 filings $302,737,158.00
  23. Justice, Dept of (DOJ) 1,786 filings $548,279,452.52
  24. Natl Economic Council (NEC) 1,589 filings $667,853,007.00
  25. Natl Security Council (NSC) 1,567 filings $589,923,947.00
  26. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 1,549 filings $437,980,891.00
  27. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 1,292 filings $542,543,791.31
  28. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 1,276 filings $312,522,410.00
  29. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) 1,183 filings $507,886,927.11
  30. Small Business Administration (SBA) 1,176 filings $352,377,957.39
  31. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 1,144 filings $502,832,610.63
  32. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) 1,107 filings $600,205,677.85
  33. Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 994 filings $213,862,072.00
  34. Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) 932 filings $436,720,789.80
  35. Natl Institutes of Health (NIH) 926 filings $153,913,521.99
  36. Army, Dept of (Other) 882 filings $187,765,064.66
  37. Bureau of Reclamation 833 filings $131,511,666.00
  38. U.S. Forest Service 816 filings $52,229,012.00
  39. Navy, Dept of 802 filings $134,165,152.66
  40. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) 801 filings $363,083,291.00
  41. U.S. Customs & Border Protection 798 filings $333,941,960.00
  42. Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) 775 filings $158,107,910.13
  43. Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) 687 filings $113,513,242.91
  44. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) 685 filings $262,404,792.35
  45. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) 667 filings $227,268,247.00
  46. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 666 filings $131,774,758.00
  47. Air Force, Dept of 665 filings $223,855,430.66
  48. Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) 665 filings $257,767,800.66
  49. Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) 608 filings $257,748,331.00
  50. Federal Transit Administration (FTA) 588 filings $30,595,986.00
  51. General Services Administration (GSA) 584 filings $257,773,512.00
  52. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) 573 filings $60,886,697.12
  53. Economic Development Administration 572 filings $35,565,949.00
  54. Federal Reserve System 561 filings $342,495,835.78
  55. Federal Highway Administration (FHA) 547 filings $219,280,915.00
  56. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) 547 filings $156,984,635.00
  57. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 513 filings $284,694,181.23
  58. Federal Railroad Administration 494 filings $70,345,427.94
  59. Intl Trade Administration (ITA) 472 filings $127,356,799.00
  60. U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) 471 filings $160,738,603.00
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Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings. Agency names are the filers' own, from the LDA's list of government bodies, so a renamed or reorganised agency can appear under more than one name.

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