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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
1State Of Loc Nation Global Public Benefit
DE
$80M
2Chamber Of Commerce
DC
$70M
3Pharmaceutical Research And Manufacturers Of America
DC
$38M
4Meta
CA
$26M
5General Motors
DC
$83K$20M
6American Chemistry Council
DC
$44K$19M
7Ctia - The Wireless Association
DC
$20K$19M
8Amazon
DC
$13K$18M
9Lockheed Martin
MD
$194K$16M
10Rtx
VA
$14M
11Ncta - The Internet & Television Association
WA
$30K$14M
12General Dynamics
VA
$318K$13M
13Google
DC
$13M
14Comcast
DC
$13M
15Fedex
DC
$66K$13M
16Altria
VA
$12M
17Boeing
IL
$478K$11M
18Occidental Petroleum
DC
$10K$11M
19T-mobile
WA
$72K$11M
20Visa
CA
$11M
21Southern
AL
$5K$11M
22Charter Communications
CT
$399K$10M
23Honeywell
DC
$477K$10M
24Edison Electric Institute
DC
$9.4M
25Microsoft
DC
$2K$9.4M
26Koch Government Affairs
KS
$9.3M
27Oracle
TX
$9.2M
28American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
DC
$9.1M
29Duke Energy
NC
$70K$8.7M
30Nextera Energy
DC
$10K$8.5M
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