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Money in politics

Lobbying

2,066 companies · $1.8B · 133 also fund a PAC

Companies don’t just donate — they hire lobbyists to push (or block) legislation. Federal law makes them disclose it. This ranks the companies and groups that spent the most lobbying Washington in 2025, drawn from Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

Spend is the company’s total for the year across everything they lobbied on (the law doesn’t break it down per bill). The ◆ PAC column shows what the same company’s political action committee gives to candidates — the ones doing both, spending to shape laws and funding the people who write them, are worth a closer look.

Filtered to Tech & Telecomclear sector
#CompanySectorsPAC donationsLobbying spend
1951Association For Accessible Medicines
DC
$3.1M
1952American Tower
MA
$3.1M
1953Anthropic
CA
$3.1M
1954Dish Network
DC
$3.2M
1955Emd Serono
DC
$3.2M
1956Nexstar Media
IL
$3.2M
1957University Of California
DC
$3.2M
1958Blackrock Funds
PA
$30K$3.2M
1959National Restaurant Association
DC
$33K$3.3M
1960Applied Materials
CA
$3.3M
1961Alibaba $3.4M
1962Uber Technologies
CA
$3.4M
1963Afl-cio
DC
$3.4M
1964Association Of Equipment Manufacturers
DC
$3.4M
1965Intel
DC
$3.5M
1966A16z Capital Management Llc (F/K/A Ah Capital Management L.l.c.)
CA
$3.5M
1967Hp
CA
$3.6M
1968Procter And Gamble
OH
$3.6M
1969Sap America
DC
$3.6M
1970International Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)
NY
$3.6M
1971Nationwide Mutual Insurance
OH
$3.6M
1972National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (Nreca)
VA
$3.7M
1973Siemens
DC
$3.8M
1974American Honda Motor $3.8M
1975Cisco
DC
$3.8M
1976Coinbase
CA
$3.8M
1977Intuit
DC
$3.9M
1978Ford Motor
DC
$3.9M
1979Micron Technology
ID
$3.9M
1980Csx
FL
$4.0M
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