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In February, Bloomberg reported that the company had «increased lobbying spending by more than 400 percent,» outpacing all of its rivals.

The well - funded dairy lobby spends a great deal of money (an estimated $ 80 to $ 100 million each year — ironically paid for by the higher prices consumers pay), persuading federal and provincial politicians that supply management «protects the family farm,» «ensures food security» and that, because these farmers are so numerous, doing anything to upset them would be political suicide.

The report includes facts about lobbying spending that hit $ 2 billion in the last election cycle, and continues unabated, Wall Street executives in the Trump administration and regulatory agencies, tax cut windfalls for the finance industry, and a deregulatory free - for - all.

Facebook is reportedly third in lobbying spending after Google's parent, Alphabet, and Amazon.

In recent years, Uber has hired top political operators and ramped up its lobbying spending as it faces regulatory battles around the country.

So far this year, those same companies have spent $ 24.2 million, a pace that would easily top last year's lobbying spend.

Total lobbying spending accounted for some $ 131 million between January and June 2014.

That meant the lobbying spending had to be picked up by the 501 (c) 3.

Lerner said Common Cause's larger financial supporters included the Proteus Fund, the New York Community Trust, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and the Park Foundation, which sponsored a 2014 Common Cause report on campaign and lobbying spending by the hydrofracking industry.

Some of NYPIRG's donors are unknown because of a sudden shift in the group's lobbying spending in 2012 as a new disclosure law came into being — timing that Horner said is a coincidence.

A shift in policy by NYPRIG has meant that donors behind its lobbying spending aren't disclosed to JCOPE, a result Horner insisted was coincidental.

Since the disclosure law took effect in 2012, however, NYPIRG's lobbying spending through the 501 (c) 4 has dipped considerably.

It's still # 2 to Google in lobbying spending; the search giant is on track to spend $ 17 million at its current pace.

But total lobbying spending declined slightly since 2016, with groups spending $ 2.6 million less in 2017, according to a report released Wednesday by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

JCOPE in 2016 and 2015 tracked $ 243 million in lobbying spending on issues before state and local governments.

Hector Figueroa, president of 32BJ, said the lobbying spending was necessary to push the cause of workers whose economic needs are not being met.

Public records indicate that legal maneuvers by Small's law firm facilitated nearly $ 700,000 in anonymous lobbying spending for Pledge 2 Protect, a nonprofit founded in 2013 to fight the city government's plan to build a marine waste transfer station on the Upper East Side that would haul away garbage by barge.

The lobbying spending went up by 189 percent for Uber and 92 percent for Lyft, compared to 2015.

Of the approximately $ 131 million in total lobbying spending for January through June of 2015, about $ 101 million was spent on compensation to retained or in - house lobbyists, and $ 30 million went to advertising, events, and other expenses.

That change of heart coincided with the cigarette lobby spending an estimated $ 50 million on campaigning.

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The union's political lobbying spending has more than tripled since 2004, as the graph below shows.

CPI points out that «lobbying spending» is on the wain, while «soft lobbying», advertising and PR, are on the rise.

This represents a substantial increase, almost doubling BP's declared lobby spend for the previous year, when it spent up to # 1.16 m ($ 1.5 m).

For tech's «big five» (Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft), a massive push in Washington — reflected in a 24.3 percent quarter over quarter spike in lobbying spending, much of which was focused directly on the tax bill — just paid off in spades.

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It follows the disclosure that the heir to the throne has regularly lobbied ministers over pet subjects including homeopathy, architecture, rainforests, rural housing and military spending.

Google has dramatically increased its lobbying activities in Washington in the past few years: it spent US$ 8.95 million on lobbying just in the first half of 2012 (compare that to the US$ 9.7 million it spent in all of 2011).

«It is disturbing that the same companies and investors who have pledged to work with the City to respect California public safety and public realm laws are spending lobbying dollars in Sacramento to repeal them,» San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who has been leading the charge to regulate the scooters, told TechCrunch.

This has a growing number of technology industry executives spooked, and for good reason: Companies including Amazon, Apple and Google rely on foreign talent, and have spent millions lobbying Congress to raise the H - 1B visa cap.

Google now spends as much on lobbying as Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Apple do — combined.

The rising trend for taxes on sweetened drinks has prompted beverage industry giants like PepsiCo and Coca - Cola to spend billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying campaigns against the measures.

The drug lobby has spent nearly $ 17 million in just over two and a half years to oppose new regulation in California.

The API has spent more than $ 7.7 million on lobbying the federal government so far this year and is also spending $ 300,000 buying ads to urge Democratic Senator Mark Udall to approve the Keystone pipeline.

«Having physical office space was tremendously legitimizing,» says the 31 - year - old, who spent two months working from the lobby of a defunct credit union as part of the program.

(Imagine if the $ 110 million / year spent on lobbying went to disruptive innovation.)

$ 2.3 million: How much Uber has reportedly spent since 2013 lobbying Congress and California's state legislature.

Novo Nordisk also spent $ 3.2 million lobbying Congress and federal agencies in 2017, its biggest - ever investment in directly influencing U.S. policymakers, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Lobbying records show that in November 2012, Google spent $ 79 on dinner and transportation for Padilla when he visited Washington, D.C., as well as $ 9 on a gift bag.

One study found that corporate lobbying and political campaign spending has been responsible for a significant portion of the rise in corporate profits since 2000.

Lobbying, both public and private, is likely to occur when companies think that governments are spending too much money on one thing, and (as a natural result) too little on others.

«The telecom industry spent millions lobbying and spreading misinformation to pit Internet users against each other and turn net neutrality into a partisan issue.

It has spent $ 8 million making that case through lobbying and advertising, and it seems to be working: The latest polls show Prop F being defeated by a narrow margin.

The company reintroduced the drink at the behest of The Surge Movement, a Millennial - led online fan base that had spent years lobbying for its return.

Also on the proxy this year is a shareholder proposal requiring ExxonMobil to offer additional transparency in its lobbying and political spending.

However, lobbying, advocacy and other political spending by corporations and trade associations can also inhibit good policy - making, hold back progress, undermine critical environmental, social or economic regulations, and offload private costs onto the public.

Though the president surprised many when he suggested raising the age during a meeting following the Parkland, Fla. shooting that left 17 dead, this official plan from the administration lines up more closely with the views of the gun lobby, which spent more than $ 30 million on Trump's presidential campaign.

Facebook is spending millions on lobbying to try to ward off regulations, even seeking to narrow a Senate bill that lawmakers call «the lightest touch possible.»

We commend Google for updating disclosure on its website on political spending and lobbying but Google still does not disclose details about indirect lobbying, maintaining secrecy about its payments used for lobbying by trade associations.

The company spent just over $ 13 million on lobbying in 2017, according to disclosure records filed with Congress.

We commend Alphabet for disclosure on its website on political spending and lobbying but the website still does not disclose details about payments used for lobbying by trade associations.