111th Congress Earmarks

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Here you will find information about earmark recipients who also lobby the federal government. Some entities - particularly defense and aviation companies - spend up to eight-figure sums on lobbying efforts each year. Note that comparing top recipients year-by-year is made virtually impossible by the lack of congressional transparency on the actual recipient of defense earmark spending. Instead of disclosing the name of the organization with the earmark funding, one must refer back to the earmark request letter for that information. Data, once it becomes available, will be added here on an ongoing basis. Ultimately, the lack of meaningful access to earmark information is a strong argument for why Congress should release all of the data in one easy to use package.

Recipients that Lobby

The earmark, contribution and lobbying data displayed below is a joint effort of the Center for Responsive Politics and Taxpayers for Common Sense. All earmark data is provided by Taxpayers for Common Sense and all contribution and lobbying data is provided by the Center for Responsive Politics.