CHARTER BROKERAGE LLC

• AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD $560,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
• INVARIANT LLC $390,000 Outside firm · 6 filings
• THE NICKLES GROUP, LLC $370,000 Outside firm · 6 filings
• BALLARD PARTNERS $280,000 Outside firm · 3 filings
• THE DUBERSTEIN GROUP INC. $240,000 Outside firm · 5 filings
• CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC $180,000 Outside firm · 4 filings
• H&M STRATEGIES LLP $120,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
• FARRAGUT PARTNERS LLP $100,000 Outside firm · 2 filings

Spend per registrant: fees an outside firm reported, or the costs the client reported for lobbying in-house. The rows add up to the total above.

• H.R. 1
  One Big Beautiful Bill Act
  6 filings

• 2026 $1,030,000 16 filings
• 2025 $1,210,000 24 filings

• Trade (domestic/foreign) 28
• Taxation/Internal Revenue Code 12
• Manufacturing 4
• Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills) 3
• Budget/Appropriations 1

The count is how many filings named that issue area. A filing reports one lump figure covering every issue on it, so the money above cannot be split between them.

• HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 25
• SENATE 21
• Commerce, Dept of (DOC) 4
• Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS) 2
• U.S. Customs & Border Protection 2
• White House Office 1