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Money in politics

Lobbying

3,438 companies · $1.8B · 171 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 Defense & Aerospaceclear sector
#CompanySectorsPAC donationsLobbying spend
481Bechtel National
VA
$540K
482Clearspeed
CA
$540K
483Google Cloud
CA
$540K
484Huntsman
TX
$540K
485Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace
VA
$540K
486Purdue University
IN
$540K
487Total Military Management
FL
$540K
488University Of Wisconsin-madison
WI
$540K
489International Union Of Operating Engineers
DC
$530K
490Syracuse University
NY
$530K
491Grupo Elektra S.a.b. De C.v. $525K
492Soo Line Railroad
DC
$522K
493Agustawestland Philadelphia
PA
$520K
494American Association Of Colleges Of Osteopathic Medicine
MD
$520K
495Bavarian Nordic
DC
$520K
496Bossier Parish Police Jury
LA
$520K
497Enviri
PA
$520K
498Joby Aero
CA
$520K
499Rice University
TX
$520K
500Sandy Hook Promise Action Fund
CT
$520K
501University Of Tennessee
DC
$520K
502Biotechnology Innovation Organization (Bio)
DC
$513K
503All Points
FL
$510K
504Bwx Technologies
DC
$48K$510K
505Hudson Technologies
NJ
$510K
506Ppg Industries
PA
$510K
507Siga Technologies
NY
$510K
508Business Roundtable
DC
$510K
509Grvty
VA
$509K
510Employee-owned Contractors Roundtable
DC
$500K
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