Monday, February 22, 2010

Lobbying Data

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Lobbying Database

In addition to campaign contributions to elected officials and candidates, companies, labor unions, and other organizations spend billions of dollars each year to lobby Congress and federal agencies. Some special interests retain lobbying firms, many of them located along Washington's legendary K Street; others have lobbyists working in-house. We've got totals spent on lobbying, beginning in 1998, for everyone from AAI Corp. to Zurich Financial.

You can use the options below to search through our database in several ways: search by name for a company, lobbying firm or individual lobbyist; search for the total spending by a particular industry; view the interests that lobbied a particular government agency; or search for lobbying on a general issue or specific piece of legislation.

Total Lobbying Spending
1998$1,434,258,445$1.43 Billion
1999$1,432,747,529$1.43 Billion
2000$1,547,395,809$1.55 Billion
2001$1,633,527,367$1.63 Billion
2002$1,807,811,769$1.81 Billion
2003$2,036,366,469$2.04 Billion
2004$2,167,219,539$2.17 Billion
2005$2,423,534,636$2.42 Billion
2006$2,614,933,192$2.61 Billion
2007$2,856,828,289$2.86 Billion
2008$3,298,573,637$3.30 Billion
2009$3,473,043,293$3.47 Billion
Number of Lobbyists*
1998$10,40310,403
1999$12,95012,950
2000$12,44912,449
2001$11,75511,755
2002$12,07512,075
2003$12,83812,838
2004$13,09613,096
2005$14,03014,030
2006$14,45114,451
2007$14,82614,826
2008$14,44614,446
2009$13,74113,741

NOTE: Figures are on this page are calculations by the Center for Responsive Politics based on data from the Senate Office of Public Records. Data for the most recent year was downloaded on February 01, 2010.

*The number of unique, registered lobbyists who have actively lobbied.

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