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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

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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. Defense $330,000.00 4 filings · 3 clients
  2. Taxation/Internal Revenue Code $300,000.00 9 filings · 6 clients
  3. Trade (domestic/foreign) $180,000.00 4 filings · 3 clients
  4. Pharmacy $180,000.00 4 filings · 2 clients
  5. Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities $170,000.00 4 filings · 4 clients
  6. Aviation/Airlines/Airports $150,000.00 4 filings · 2 clients
  7. Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace $140,000.00 2 filings · 1 client
  8. Transportation $132,000.00 4 filings · 2 clients
  9. Health Issues $80,000.00 5 filings · 3 clients
  10. Agriculture $80,000.00 4 filings · 4 clients
  11. Retirement $80,000.00 2 filings · 2 clients
  12. Budget/Appropriations $70,000.00 2 filings · 2 clients
  13. Small Business $40,000.00 1 filing · 1 client
  14. Medicare/Medicaid $40,000.00 4 filings · 2 clients
  15. Civil Rights/Civil Liberties $30,000.00 3 filings · 1 client
  16. Insurance $30,000.00 1 filing · 1 client
  17. Banking $20,000.00 1 filing · 1 client
  18. Consumer Issues/Safety/Products $20,000.00 1 filing · 1 client
  19. Roads/Highway $12,000.00 1 filing · 1 client
  20. Religion $10,000.00 1 filing · 1 client
  21. Energy/Nuclear $0 1 filing · 1 client
  22. Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.) $0 1 filing · 1 client
  23. Foreign Relations $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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