Federal Lobbying
Federal lobbying spending, the clients and firms behind it, and the issues they lobbied on. Data comes from Senate LDA filings and LobbyView (MIT/NSF).
Total Filings
53,909
Total Spent
$8.1B
Unique Clients
2,212
Lobbying Firms
1,054
Revolving Door
7,399
Year Range
2023–2026
$249.2M
14 filings
$107.0M recent
$226.6M
85 filings
$86.0M recent
$141.3M
443 filings
$69.3M recent
$93.4M
62 filings
$49.4M recent
$84.5M
70 filings
$37.7M recent
$83.6M
27 filings
$39.6M recent
$68.9M
112 filings
$30.5M recent
$68.7M
82 filings
$27.3M recent
$67.9M
83 filings
$31.2M recent
$66.6M
92 filings
$28.2M recent
$60.5M
450 filings
$24.1M recent
$57.0M
163 filings
$23.7M recent
$54.7M
51 filings
$21.0M recent
$50.8M
22 filings
$25.9M recent
$50.5M
89 filings
$23.2M recent
$48.7M
163 filings
$22.0M recent
$47.1M
116 filings
$20.4M recent
$47.0M
280 filings
$21.4M recent
$45.1M
174 filings
$19.2M recent
$43.9M
205 filings
$17.5M recent
$42.4M
162 filings
$26.6M recent
$41.9M
161 filings
$23.2M recent
$41.6M
118 filings
$16.5M recent
$41.3M
179 filings
$18.1M recent
$38.5M
105 filings
$20.5M recent
Methodology
Lobbying data comes from two sources. LDA filings are sourced from Senate disclosure records and linked to QPQ entities by name matching. LobbyView data is from the MIT/NSF-funded LobbyView project, provided under CC-BY-4.0 license. Dollar figures represent disclosed lobbying expenditures only and may not capture all influence activity. Revolving door figures come from the covered-position field of Senate LDA filings. Bill-level lobbying shows which bills were referenced in lobbying filings, not whether the lobbying supported or opposed the bill. The “By Issue” figures count a filing’s whole amount under every issue code it lists (about three per filing), so they overlap and do not add up to the total.