Ten years after the Supreme Court's historic decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, OpenSecrets is taking a look at the dramatic ways America's campaign finance system has been ...

In the decades that followed the Jackson presidency, elections increasingly were financed by the people — and often, those in power solicited contributions with a heavy hand. In 1867, Congress enacted ...

Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America organization profile: annual lobbying totals since 1998, and bills lobbied in 2024.

Over the last two decades, the extensive network of lobbyists and donors tied to the defense industry directed $285 million in campaign contributions and $2.5 billion in lobbying spending as they ...

Despite this directive, these men and women made their way through the revolving door and were either previously lobbyists and now work in the Trump Administration or were previously in the ...

Here are the individuals who have dipped deepest into their own pockets for campaign contributions to federal candidates, parties, political action committees, 527 organizations, and Carey committees.

Teamsters Union organization profile. Contributions in the 2024 cycle: $5,250,003. Lobbying in 2024: $2,106,160. Outside Spending in the 2024 cycle: $151,986.

— by Dan Auble and Sarah Bryner, June 28, 2017 Nearly 2,100 federal lobbyists who were active in 2016 did not report undertaking lobbying activities in the first quarter of 2017. Of those, 58 percent ...

National Education Assn organization profile. Contributions in the 2024 cycle: $22,744,023. Lobbying in 2024: $2,780,000. Outside Spending in the 2024 cycle: $1,134,188.

Opensecret's money profile for the Nutritional & Dietary Supplements industry/interest group. See contributions and lobbying history.

Lax lobbying laws allow Washington insiders, including former members of Congress and industry executives, to influence federal policy without registering as lobbyists.