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Money in politics

Lobbying

4,349 companies · $3.3B · 382 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
$15K$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
$5K$190K
2009Dream Exchange
IL
$190K
2010Economic Security Project Action
NY
$190K
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