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Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook Top the List of Highest Lobbying Spenders
Here’s a list of the companies reportedly doling out the most money lobbying the goverment.
BY AVERY HARTMANS, BUSINESS INSIDER @AVERYHARTMANS
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When it comes to lobbying the federal government, no one does it bigger than Alphabet, Google’s parent company.
The tech giant spent millions on lobbying efforts in 2016, outpacing other companies like Amazon and Facebook by millions of dollars.
That’s according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which compiled lobbying expenditures from the Senate Office of Public Records up until October 2016. The records show that while Alphabet spent millions this year, it was down from the $16,660,000 it spent in 2015.
Read below to find out how much some of the biggest tech firms in the nation spent on lobbying this year.
17. Yelp: $430,000
16. Twitter: $510,000
15. Neustar: $550,000
14. Dropbox: $565,000
13. Netflix: $600,000
12. Expedia: $600,000
11. Dell: $610,000
10. Alibaba: $710,000
9. Spotify: $710,000
8. PayPal: $736,611
7. SalesForce: $930,000
5. eBay: $1,640,000
4. Yahoo: $1,890,000
3. Facebook: $6,992,000
2. Amazon: $8,624,000
1. Alphabet: $11,850,000
This post originally appeared on Business Insider.
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