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Money in politics

Lobbying

17,985 companies · $5.6B · 982 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.

#CompanySectorsPAC donationsLobbying spend ↓
31Electronic Payments Coalition ›
DC
—$11M
32T-mobile ›
WA
◆ $97K$11M
33Merck ›
DC
◆ $56K$11M
34Visa ›
CA
◆ $28K$11M
35Southern ›
AL
◆ $10K$11M
36Eli Lilly ›
IN
◆ $128K$11M
37Charter Communications ›
CT
◆ $431K$10M
38Genentech ›
CA
◆ $42K$10M
39Apple ›
CA
—$10M
40AT&T ›
DC
◆ $6K$10M
41Honeywell ›
DC
—$10M
42National Retail Federation ›
DC
—$10M
43Bristol-myers Squibb ›
DC
◆ $28K$10M
44Cvs Health (And Subsidiaries) ›
DC
◆ $108K$9.7M
45Edison Electric Institute ›
DC
—$9.4M
46Microsoft ›
DC
◆ $2K$9.4M
47Koch Government Affairs ›
KS
—$9.3M
48Oracle ›
TX
—$9.2M
49Bayer Corporation (Consolidated Report) ›
DC
◆ $31K$9.2M
50American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network ›
DC
—$9.1M
51Securities Industry And Financial Markets Association ›
DC
◆ $40K$9.0M
52Nfib (National Federation Of Independent Business) ›
DC
—$8.8M
53Duke Energy ›
NC
◆ $189K$8.7M
54Nextera Energy ›
DC
◆ $83K$8.5M
55Cigna ›
DC
—$8.4M
56Northrop Grumman ›
CA
◆ $479K$8.4M
57Johnson & Johnson ›
DC
◆ $58K$8.4M
58Bytedance ›
CA
—$8.3M
59National Association Of Manufacturers ›
DC
—$8.2M
60Chevron ›
DC
—$8.0M
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