PRINCIPAL MINERAL

• MICHAEL BEST STRATEGIES LLC $440,000 Outside firm · 5 filings
• TSG ADVOCATES DC, LLC $208,500 Outside firm · 6 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.

• 2026 $470,000 6 filings
• 2025 $178,500 5 filings

• Manufacturing 10
• Natural Resources 9
• Homeland Security 6
• Defense 5
• 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 9
• SENATE 8
• Energy, Dept of 5
• Natl Security Council (NSC) 5
• Executive Office of the President (EOP) 4
• Vice President of the U.S. 2
• Defense, Dept of (DOD) 1
• Labor, Dept of (DOL) 1