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This corporate lobbying tracker follows how much US public companies spend on federal lobbying, rebuilt daily from Lobbying Disclosure Act filings. Explore what companies lobbied on, which spent the most, and the latest filings.
Source: public federal LDA filings · figures reflect tracked public-company activity, not total US lobbying.
This tracker summarizes US federal lobbying disclosures: the amounts companies report spending to lobby the government, the issues they lobby on, and the registrants who file on their behalf. It is rebuilt from the latest available public filings and updated daily. Spend figures are the amounts reported in the disclosures; percentages of market cap and revenue are computed from the most recent company financials. Different companies file on different schedules, so recent quarters can still be filling in.
Related: company lobbying profiles, congressional stock trades, and the US Congress data hub.
Corporate lobbying is when companies spend money to influence US government decisions: legislation, federal regulations, and agency actions. Under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, companies and the firms they hire must report that spending in public quarterly filings.
US public companies report billions of dollars in federal lobbying every year. This tracker aggregates the disclosed amounts from Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filings and updates daily; the Summary tiles at the top of the page show the current tracked total, number of companies, and disclosures filed.
The biggest corporate lobbying spenders shift by quarter and industry. Technology, pharmaceutical, defense, and financial companies consistently rank near the top. The Top Spenders and Company Lobbying Exposure tables rank companies by disclosed spending, and you can search any company or ticker (for example Meta, Apple, or Microsoft) to see its lobbying activity.
The Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 is the US federal law that requires lobbyists and the organizations employing them to register and file public reports of their lobbying activity and spending. These LDA filings, submitted to the US Senate and House, are the source data for this tracker.
Every figure comes from public federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings. We rebuild the lobbying database daily from the latest available disclosures and match filers to public companies. Figures reflect tracked public-company activity, not the total of all US lobbying.
The tracker is rebuilt daily from the most recent public filings. Because companies file on different quarterly schedules, the newest quarters can keep filling in as additional disclosures are submitted.
Not investment advice. Lobbying disclosures describe reported spending to influence government and are not a measure of company performance or a recommendation. Always do your own research.