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Money in politics

Lobbying

4,349 companies · $3.3B · 583 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 Banking & Financialclear sector
#CompanySectorsPAC donationsLobbying spend ↑
1981Subcom ›
NH
—$180K
1982T1 Energy Inc. (Formerly Freyr Battery Inc.) ›
GA
—$180K
1983Friedkin ›
TX
—$180K
1984U.s. Battery Machine Builders ›
DC
—$180K
1985University Of Louisiana At Lafayette Foundation ›
LA
—$180K
1986Valley Presbyterian Hospital ›
CA
—$180K
1987Virtu Financial ›
NY
—$180K
1988Washington State Department Of Commerce ›
WA
—$180K
1989Western Growers ›
CA
—$180K
1990Workiva ›
IA
—$180K
1991Metro ›
OR
—$181K
1992Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation ›
KY
—$182K
1993Lower Colorado River Authority ›
TX
—$185K
1994Ocean Spray Cranberries ›
MA
—$185K
1995Sm Energy (Aka Civitas Resources Inc.) ›
CO
—$185K
1996Association For Frontotemporal Degeneration ›
PA
—$186K
1997American Catalog Mailers Association ›
RI
—$186K
1998United Brotherhood Of Carpenters ›
DC
—$186K
1999Adp ›
NJ
—$190K
2000American Association Of Community Colleges ›
DC
—$190K
2001American Property Casualty Insurance Association Fka Property Casualty Insurers ›
DC
—$190K
2002American Turkish Business Roundtable ›
DC
—$190K
2003Ares Capital ›—$190K
2004Bkv ›
CO
—$190K
2005Consumer First Coalition ›
DC
—$190K
2006Covenant House ›
NY
—$190K
2007Demand Progress Action ›
MD
—$190K
2008Discover Financial ›
DC
—$190K
2009Dream Exchange ›
IL
—$190K
2010Economic Security Project Action ›
NY
—$190K
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