Thursday, August 27, 2009

Spending on Lobbying Doubled From 2000 to 2008

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$1,441,256,939$1.44 Billion
1999$1,440,661,347$1.44 Billion
2000$1,559,161,579$1.56 Billion
2001$1,636,290,131$1.64 Billion
2002$1,817,011,583$1.82 Billion
2003$2,047,622,456$2.05 Billion
2004$2,177,044,520$2.18 Billion
2005$2,431,122,457$2.43 Billion
2006$2,616,993,871$2.62 Billion
2007$2,857,688,519$2.86 Billion
2008$3,296,457,809$3.30 Billion
2009$1,631,536,192$1.63 Billion
Number of Lobbyists
1998$10,66110,661
1999$13,23713,237
2000$12,70412,704
2001$12,04612,046
2002$12,32712,327
2003$13,13413,134
2004$13,36513,365
2005$14,35514,355
2006$14,67014,670
2007$15,15915,159
2008$14,83814,838
2009$12,57212,572
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