$8,156,205,646 across 6 quarters of filings
Registrants filed 116,127 quarterly lobbying reports with the Secretary of the Senate covering January 2024 through June 2025. 103,449 of them report a dollar figure, and those add up to $8,156,205,646, paid by 18,544 clients to 4,663 registrants. The other 12,678 reports carry no amount, because the Lobbying Disclosure Act only requires one once a quarter's income or expenses reach $5,000.
The law also lets filers round to the nearest $10,000. 90,660 of the 103,449 priced reports land on an exact multiple of $10,000, so every figure on this page inherits that rounding.
The total counts some of the same money twice
An organization that lobbies for itself reports what it spent. A firm hired to lobby on that organization's behalf separately reports what it was paid. When the organization hired the firm, the same dollars appear in both reports, and adding the filings together counts them twice.
12,461 of the priced reports are self-filings, where the client and the registrant are the same organization, and they account for $3,772,771,919. That marks the scale of the overlap without measuring it: an LD-2 does not say which outside firms an in-house budget paid. Read $8,156,205,646 as the sum of what was reported, not as what the lobbying industry was paid.
The largest reported footprints
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $115,150,000 across 36 filings and 7 registrants.
- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.: $113,140,000 across 6 filings and 1 registrant.
- PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA: $57,540,000 across 122 filings and 22 registrants.
- AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $42,670,000 across 43 filings and 8 registrants.
- BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE INC: $39,440,000 across 6 filings and 1 registrant.
- AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $38,790,000 across 30 filings and 5 registrants.
- META PLATFORMS, INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES: $38,430,000 across 12 filings and 2 registrants.
- AARP: $33,252,500 across 45 filings and 11 registrants.
Names appear as they were filed.
Quarter by quarter
- January 2024 quarter: $1,344,056,352 across 16,710 filings.
- April 2024 quarter: $1,274,719,853 across 16,826 filings.
- July 2024 quarter: $1,250,816,977 across 16,744 filings.
- October 2024 quarter: $1,282,405,254 across 16,482 filings.
- January 2025 quarter: $1,473,346,509 across 17,851 filings.
- April 2025 quarter: $1,530,860,701 across 18,836 filings.
What a lobbying filing adds to a trade
An LD-2 names the client, the registrant, the issues worked, and often the specific bills. It does not say who was met, when, or to what effect. What it establishes is that an organization was paying to be heard on a defined set of issues during a defined quarter.
That is useful next to a trade in two ways. It names the companies and trade associations actually working a policy area, rather than the sector in the abstract. And it puts a date range on that work, so a purchase or a sale can be placed inside or outside it.
A filing places a company's lobbying in a quarter. It cannot say whether that work had anything to do with a member's trade, and nothing on this page claims it did.
How these figures are built
Filings come from the Senate Office of Public Records LD-2 dataset as ingested by CapitolExposed, covering January 2024 through June 2025. Amounts are stored in cents and converted for display. Reports with no dollar amount are excluded from every total here and counted separately above. Client and registrant counts are distinct names as filed, so an organization filing under more than one spelling is counted more than once.