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All lobbying filings

Agencies lobbied

Every LD-2 filing lists the parts of government its lobbyists contacted. That is 477,342 mentions across 219 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 140,904 filings $10,301,968,610
  2. SENATE 138,978 filings $10,246,458,376

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 217
  1. White House Office 12,739 filings $2,473,724,594
  2. Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS) 10,044 filings $1,787,717,291
  3. Commerce, Dept of (DOC) 9,852 filings $2,357,136,485
  4. Treasury, Dept of 9,405 filings $2,539,884,477
  5. Defense, Dept of (DOD) 9,383 filings $1,319,808,352
  6. Transportation, Dept of (DOT) 7,909 filings $1,170,188,668
  7. Agriculture, Dept of (USDA) 7,737 filings $1,171,518,130
  8. Energy, Dept of 7,617 filings $1,510,808,834
  9. Executive Office of the President (EOP) 7,586 filings $1,701,317,654
  10. Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 7,029 filings $1,295,852,636
  11. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 6,916 filings $1,442,700,826
  12. U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) 6,791 filings $1,864,428,494
  13. State, Dept of (DOS) 5,916 filings $1,455,187,952
  14. Interior, Dept of (DOI) 5,537 filings $913,325,953
  15. Office of Management & Budget (OMB) 4,759 filings $1,103,193,639
  16. Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS) 4,224 filings $1,171,924,231
  17. Labor, Dept of (DOL) 3,804 filings $1,041,943,641
  18. Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers) 3,028 filings $322,436,158
  19. Education, Dept of 2,991 filings $573,831,910
  20. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) 2,869 filings $721,169,582
  21. Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD) 2,208 filings $364,794,521
  22. Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) 2,183 filings $465,106,784
  23. Justice, Dept of (DOJ) 2,155 filings $636,323,706
  24. Natl Economic Council (NEC) 1,870 filings $786,155,852
  25. Natl Security Council (NSC) 1,849 filings $685,877,272
  26. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 1,820 filings $503,272,083
  27. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 1,563 filings $647,075,585
  28. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 1,512 filings $371,711,506
  29. Small Business Administration (SBA) 1,420 filings $414,536,129
  30. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) 1,405 filings $593,489,204
  31. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 1,323 filings $570,209,691
  32. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) 1,290 filings $681,406,064
  33. Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 1,181 filings $272,422,399
  34. Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) 1,095 filings $506,336,634
  35. Natl Institutes of Health (NIH) 1,087 filings $182,942,236
  36. Army, Dept of (Other) 1,042 filings $208,372,638
  37. U.S. Forest Service 976 filings $61,566,399
  38. Bureau of Reclamation 960 filings $151,421,811
  39. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) 937 filings $407,941,611
  40. Navy, Dept of 930 filings $155,074,511
  41. U.S. Customs & Border Protection 930 filings $390,275,157
  42. Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) 912 filings $185,281,199
  43. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) 842 filings $295,466,522
  44. Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) 810 filings $135,494,465
  45. Air Force, Dept of 798 filings $264,946,695
  46. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 786 filings $145,816,319
  47. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) 785 filings $277,793,949
  48. Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) 754 filings $295,921,626
  49. Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) 728 filings $294,973,840
  50. Federal Transit Administration (FTA) 695 filings $35,429,486
  51. Economic Development Administration 691 filings $37,971,949
  52. General Services Administration (GSA) 687 filings $294,174,512
  53. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) 667 filings $67,600,357
  54. Federal Highway Administration (FHA) 658 filings $247,184,648
  55. Federal Reserve System 657 filings $395,043,282
  56. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) 651 filings $183,069,354
  57. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 629 filings $342,476,288
  58. Federal Railroad Administration 580 filings $83,676,773
  59. Intl Trade Administration (ITA) 561 filings $165,158,697
  60. U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) 557 filings $176,984,998
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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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