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Lobbying spending

Who spends the most influencing Congress: top clients and lobbying firms by total reported spend, from federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

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"Spend" = reported income (fees paid to lobbyists) plus in-house lobbying expenses. Clients are grouped as on each client's own page: every firm that files for a client, plus the client's own in-house filings, so a client's total here matches its page. Firms are totalled by the name exactly as reported, so a firm that changed its spelling may appear more than once; its page groups by the LDA's registrant id. Rankings are exactly as filed: nothing is corrected or left out. A row marked As filed, unverified is one where a single quarterly filing reports more than $5 million in fees from one client, or more than $50 million in in-house spending, far above anything else on record.

 Top clients
  1. STATE OF LOC NATION GLOBAL PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION As filed, unverified $140,000,000 7 filings
  2. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A. $123,470,000 7 filings
  3. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS $113,650,000 42 filings
  4. PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA $73,905,000 161 filings
  5. BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE $60,410,000 120 filings
  6. META PLATFORMS, INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES $45,520,000 14 filings
  7. AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION $42,590,000 49 filings
  8. AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION $42,450,000 35 filings
  9. GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY $42,410,000 114 filings
  10. CTIA - THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION $39,597,500 142 filings
  11. AARP $35,712,500 73 filings
  12. AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC $33,660,000 55 filings
  13. AMERICAN CHEMISTRY COUNCIL $33,110,123 55 filings
  14. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION $31,340,000 100 filings
  15. ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC $30,008,000 202 filings
  16. GENERAL DYNAMICS $29,736,857 151 filings
  17. AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS, INC. (AHIP) $29,060,000 19 filings
  18. GOOGLE CLIENT SERVICES LLC $28,890,000 111 filings
  19. NCTA - THE INTERNET AND TELEVISION ASSOCIATION $27,920,000 123 filings
  20. AMGEN INC. $27,710,000 153 filings
  21. COMCAST CORPORATION $27,239,000 194 filings
  22. PFIZER, INC. $26,880,000 85 filings
  23. RTX CORPORATION AND AFFILIATES $26,340,000 38 filings
  24. FEDEX CORPORATION $25,861,000 87 filings
  25. T-MOBILE USA INC $25,364,000 173 filings
 Top lobbying firms
  1. BALLARD PARTNERS $179,950,000 2,400 filings
  2. LOC COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION As filed, unverified $140,000,000 7 filings
  3. BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP $138,520,000 2,630 filings
  4. BGR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS $136,685,000 2,480 filings
  5. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A. $123,470,000 7 filings
  6. AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD $120,250,000 2,257 filings
  7. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS $111,550,000 7 filings
  8. MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC $102,420,000 1,230 filings
  9. CORNERSTONE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, INC. $102,090,000 2,591 filings
  10. HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP $95,520,000 2,409 filings
  11. INVARIANT LLC $84,410,000 1,471 filings
  12. PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA $64,510,000 7 filings
  13. CONTINENTAL STRATEGY, LLC $63,328,624 1,026 filings
  14. THORN RUN PARTNERS $61,010,000 1,809 filings
  15. CHECKMATE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS $59,062,500 759 filings
  16. CASSIDY & ASSOCIATES, INC. $54,240,000 1,279 filings
  17. THE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE, INC. $53,850,000 7 filings
  18. CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC $52,200,000 1,210 filings
  19. MEHLMAN CONSULTING, INC. $50,280,000 944 filings
  20. MERCURY PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC $46,558,700 889 filings
  21. CAPITOL COUNSEL LLC $46,020,000 1,207 filings
  22. SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS $45,485,000 1,329 filings
  23. META PLATFORMS, INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES $45,240,000 7 filings
  24. FORBES-TATE $44,890,000 1,035 filings
  25. S-3 GROUP $44,400,000 894 filings

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings. Money fields are self-reported by filers and often rounded or left blank.

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