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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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