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Members of congress typically introduce over 10,000 bills, though only a handful ever see a vote. Large appropriations and budget bills get the most attention but rest assured, lobbyists are tracking any proposal that affects their clients and are ready to pounce.

Lobbying disclosure forms ask filers to disclose which "specific lobbying issues" they worked on during the period. "Specific" is up for interpretation, however, as some filers name bills by number and title while others provide vague descriptions that offer little information. Here we've counted up the number of filers that reported lobbying on a particular piece of legislation, to the extent that can be counted. Click on the bill number to view a list of interests that reported lobbying on that bill.

NOTE: Occasionally, a lobbying client may refer to a bill number from a previous Congress, either in error or because they are lobbying on a bill that has not yet been assigned a number. + Read more

In these cases, it will appear as though they are lobbying on the bill sharing that number in the Congress in which they are filing, which in most cases is a different bill entirely. To see more information about the bill the client is lobbying on, you can look at the specific report under the "Report images" tab on the lobbying client's profile page. If you believe that there is an error, please e-mail us and we will attempt to correct it.

Bills

Bill Number Congress Bill Title No. of Clients
H.R.748 116 CARES Act 1,545
H.R.6201 116 Families First Coronavirus Response Act 793
S.3548 116 CARES Act 599
H.R.6074 116 Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 454
S.1895 116 Lower Health Care Costs Act 233
H.R.1865 116 Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 220
H.R.3 116 Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act 191
S.2543 116 Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act of 2019 152
S.2302 116 America's Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019 139
H.R.2500 116 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 118
H.R.1 116 For the People Act of 2019 113
S.2657 116 Advanced Geothermal Innovation Leadership Act of 2019 106
H.R.3055 116 Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 2019 103
H.R.3630 116 No Surprises Act 103
H.R.5430 116 United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act 102
S.1790 116 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 101
H.R.2740 116 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020 101
H.R.2474 116 Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019 89
H.R.1595 116 Secure And Fair Enforcement Banking Act of 2019 88
H.R.6379 116 Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act 79

NOTE: Figures 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 April 22, 2020 and includes spending from January 1 - March 31. Prior years include spending from January through December.

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