Senate LDA · 2023–2024 combined

Top Organizations by Lobbying Spend (2026)

Ranked by combined Senate LDA lobbying spend across 16,606 organizations that reported any lobbying activity, 2023–2024. Same lobbying totals each organization's own profile page charts.

$142.2M
Leader · Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.
$19.3M
#100 cutoff
16,606
Orgs with any reported lobbying spend

Top lobbying spender

Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. leads this board at $142.2M in combined Senate LDA lobbying spend, 2023–2024. The #100 cutoff to make this list is $19.3M, placing it in roughly the top 1% of the 16,606 organizations that reported any lobbying spend in the period.

$142.2M
#1 · Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.
$19.3M
#100 cutoff
top 1%
of 16,606 reporting orgs

Amounts are Senate LDA reported lobbying expenditures, combined across the years shown per organization, not campaign contributions or federal contract awards.

Top organizations

Top 12 of 100 shown here; the full list is in the table below.

Largest combined lobbying spend

Top 12 of 100, 2023–2024 combined

  1. 1
    Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. $142,180,000 2023–2024
  2. 2
    National Association of Realtors $140,580,000 2023–2024
  3. 3
  4. 4
    American Hospital Association $55,330,000 2023–2024
  5. 5
    American Medical Association $47,614,091 2023–2024
  6. 6
    Business Roundtable $47,530,000 2023–2024
  7. 7
  8. 8
    American Chemistry Council $41,880,000 2023–2024
  9. 9
    Amazon.com Services LLC $39,110,000 2023–2024
  10. 10
    AARP $38,890,200 2023–2024
  11. 11
    Ctia-The Wireless Association $36,280,000 2023–2024
  12. 12
    Comcast Corporation $36,056,750 2023–2024

Source Senate LDA via PlainInfluence lobbying · 2023–2024

Where the #100 cutoff sits among reporting organizations

Every organization with reported lobbying spend, 2023–2024 combined

$19,322,500 Top 1% higher than 99%+ of 16,606 reporting organizations

Combined lobbying spend, bucketed by dollar band

Source Senate LDA via PlainInfluence lobbying · 2023–2024

Bars are uneven dollar bands (lobbying spend is heavily concentrated among a small number of organizations, so equal-width bands would flatten into one giant near-zero bar). The dashed line marks the #100 cutoff. Hover or tap any bar for its full count.

Full ranking, top 100

#OrganizationLobbying spend
1Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.$142.2M
2National Association of Realtors$140.6M
3Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America$65.7M
4American Hospital Association$55.3M
5American Medical Association$47.6M
6Business Roundtable$47.5M
7Meta Platforms, INC. and Various Subsidiaries$44.0M
8American Chemistry Council$41.9M
9Amazon.com Services LLC$39.1M
10AARP$38.9M
11Ctia-The Wireless Association$36.3M
12Comcast Corporation$36.1M
13Altria Client Services$33.7M
14Pharmaceutical Care Management Association$33.7M
15Ncta - the Internet & Television Association$32.1M
16General Motors Company$31.5M
17Google Client Services L.L.C.$30.9M
18General Dynamics Corporation$30.9M
19Lockheed Martin Corporation$29.5M
20Pfizer INC.$28.8M
21Amgen INC.$28.5M
22Boeing$27.9M
23American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers$27.5M
24Charter Communications INC.$27.3M
25National Association of Broadcasters$27.2M
26Fedex Corporation$27.1M
27America's Health Insurance Plans (ahip)$27.0M
28RTX Corporation and Affiliates$26.8M
29Qualcomm Incorporated$26.4M
30Verizon Communications INC and Various Subsidiaries$26.3M
31T-Mobile USA, INC.$26.2M
32Oracle Corporation$25.7M
33Edison Electric Institute$25.1M
34Southern Company$24.8M
35Genentech INC.$24.4M
36Occidental Petroleum Corporation$23.9M
37Microsoft Corporation$23.8M
38Gilead Sciences, INC.$23.1M
39Apple, INC.$22.8M
40Merck & CO., INC.$22.1M
41Honeywell International$22.0M
42Cvs Health (and Subsidiaries)$21.5M
43AT&T Services, INC. and Its Affiliates$21.3M
44Unitedhealth Group Incorporated$21.1M
45Johnson & Johnson Services INC$20.3M
46National Association of Manufacturers$20.1M
47Northrop Grumman Corporation$19.8M
48Bytedance INC.$19.7M
49Walmart INC.$19.5M
50Nextera Energy, INC$19.3M
51Koch Government Affairs$19.3M
52Visa INC$19.2M
53The Cigna Group and Subsidiaries (formerly Cigna Corporation and Subsidiaries)$18.7M
54National Retail Federation$18.5M
55Eli Lilly and Company$18.1M
56Biotechnology Innovation Organization$18.0M
57American Bankers Association$17.8M
58Chevron U.S.A., INC.$17.7M
59Conocophillips$17.6M
60American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, INC.$16.7M
61Intel Corporation$16.0M
62Fresenius Medical Care North America$15.8M
63Bayer Corporation (consolidated Report)$15.8M
64Aflac$15.8M
65Elevance Health, INC.$15.7M
66American Airlines INC.$15.7M
67Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association$15.5M
68Bristol-Myers Squibb Company$15.4M
69Recording Industry Association of America$15.3M
70Huntington Ingalls Industries, INC.$15.2M
71National Multifamily Housing Council$15.2M
72General Atomics$15.1M
73UPS (united Parcel Service)$15.1M
74Duke Energy Corporation$14.9M
75Novartis Corporation$14.7M
76Anheuser-Busch Companies INC.$14.5M
77Delta Air Lines INC$14.5M
78American Petroleum Institute$14.4M
79Shell USA, INC. (fka Shell Oil Company)$14.1M
80National Automobile Dealers Association$14.0M
81United Airlines, INC.$13.9M
82American Property Casualty Insurance Association$13.9M
83Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association$13.9M
84Dell Technologies, INC.$13.8M
85Novo Nordisk INC.$13.5M
86National Shooting Sports Foundation, INC.$13.3M
87Entertainment Software Association$13.1M
88Open Society Action Fund$13.1M
89National Association of Children's Hospitals (n.a.c.h.)$12.8M
90Credit Union National Association, INC. DBA Americas Credit Unions$12.8M
91Rai Services Company$12.7M
92Samsung Electronics America INC$12.6M
93Sanofi US Services INC$12.5M
94Pmi US Corporate Services INC. (fka Pmi Global Services INC.)$12.2M
95Toyota Motor North America INC (tma)$12.0M
96American Health Care Association$11.9M
97Palantir Technologies INC.$11.9M
98Investment Company Institute$11.9M
99Centene Corporation$11.7M
100American Electric Power Company, INC. and Affiliated Corporations$11.7M

Year-over-year change boards and PAC contribution rankings also live on rankings. Source: U.S. Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

Every figure on PlainInfluence is rendered directly from official FEC, Senate LDA and USAspending records, no number is typed in by an editor. Rankings are computed directly from Senate LDA lobbying bulk data (SUM/GROUP BY on stored yearly rows), no figure is hand-entered. Disclosed contributions, lobbying, and contracts are lawful, regulated activities, appearing on this page is not an allegation of wrongdoing. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, our disclaimer, or report a data error. Data current as of 2023–2024.