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Lobbying spend by issue

What Washington is lobbied on: federal lobbying issue areas ranked by the total reported spend of filings that named them, with how many filings and clients touched each.

Top spenders & firms

A filing reports one spending figure covering every issue it lobbied on; the law doesn't break spend out by issue. So a filing that lobbied on three issues has its full spend counted under all three. These per-issue totals therefore overlap and don't sum to a grand total; read each as "money behind filings that touched this issue." "Spend" = reported income (fees) plus in-house lobbying expenses.

 Issue areas by reported spend
  1. Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities $300,000.00 10 filings · 8 clients
  2. Banking $250,000.00 8 filings · 6 clients
  3. Health Issues $170,000.00 4 filings · 4 clients
  4. Small Business $160,000.00 5 filings · 3 clients
  5. Taxation/Internal Revenue Code $90,000.00 3 filings · 3 clients
  6. Housing $60,000.00 1 filing · 1 client
  7. Energy/Nuclear $50,000.00 1 filing · 1 client
  8. Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV $20,000.00 1 filing · 1 client
  9. Foreign Relations $20,000.00 1 filing · 1 client
  10. Natural Resources $10,000.00 1 filing · 1 client
  11. Environment/Superfund $0 1 filing · 1 client
  12. Insurance $0 1 filing · 1 client

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings. Issue areas are the filers' own LDA general-issue codes. Money fields are self-reported and often rounded or left blank.

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