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According to the D.C.-based nonprofit, which tracks money in politics, “health companies spent more than any other sector in 2023 with federal lobbying spending topping $739 million for the year.”
Bondi's financial disclosure, which covers all major financial activity from last year, lists a $1,067,000 salary from the lobbying firm Ballard Partners, along with $520,000 in consulting fees ...
In 2017 around $41 million, 11% of all lobbying dollars spent in Texas, were spent by taxpayer-funded entities. [22] In 2020, the City of Austin spent $435,000–$824,000 lobbying other governments for money. [23] The Texas GOP established the abolishment of taxpayer-funded lobbying as a legislative goal for the 2019 legislative session. [24]
This list shows only the direct contributions to each campaign but does not include more substantive contributions for lobbying and outside spending. In 2016, direct contributions (in this list) totaled $1,085,100; lobbying efforts (not in this list) totaled $3,188,000; and outside spending (not in this list) totaled $54,398,558.
Senate salaries House of Representatives salaries. This chart shows historical information on the salaries that members of the United States Congress have been paid. [1] The Government Ethics Reform Act of 1989 provides for an automatic increase in salary each year as a cost of living adjustment that reflects the employment cost index. [2]
Canada's oil lobbyists spend money outside of Canada to further international agreements. In 2015, lobbyists for TransCanada, the owner of the Keystone XL pipeline project, spent $500,000 in a single legislative session lobbying Nebraska state senators. While U.S. law forbids foreign companies and individuals from making political contributions ...
The McKee complaint filed by GOP Chairman Powers, accused the governor of violating the state ethics code "by accepting a gift, a free lunch, in excess of $25" from a lobbyist for a state vendor ...
Through August 2018, "Qatar has hired 35 US lobbying firms and paid them a total of at least $19.5 million." According to disclosure filings: [7] The lobbyists contacted hundreds of members of the US Congress and dozens of journalists and Trump administration officials while spending millions of dollars on advertising that promotes Qatar as a ...