3M COMPANY — Federal Lobbying Profile

The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 29 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

495

Filed by

Reported in-house

$63,920,676

Reported by firms

$12,770,000

These two are not added together. An organisation lobbying for itself reports its own spending, and the firms it retains report what they were paid; the rules ask the first to include the second, but filings do not always do so and a filing gives no way to tell. Each is shown as reported.

Reported lobbying by year

The larger of in-house and firm-reported each year, $ millions 2007 to 2026

Filings

495 filings, newest first.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	THEGROUP DC, LLC	$50,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	3M COMPANY	$750,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report (No Activity) 3rd Quarter 2026	MARSHALL & POPP, LLC	— reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC	$80,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	HOLLAND & HART LLP	$40,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	SULLIVAN STRATEGIES LLC (FKA SB CAPITOL SOLUTIONS)	$15,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	MICHAEL BEST STRATEGIES LLC	$80,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	AMERICAN DEFENSE INTERNATIONAL	$50,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	BALLARD PARTNERS	$140,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2026	3M COMPANY	$720,000 reported

Filed by

Each firm that has reported for this client, and the client itself where it lobbies in-house, with the reports filed and the amounts they disclose.

Firm	Reports	Amount
3M COMPANY In-house	77	$63,920,676
THEGROUP DC, LLC	27	$1,990,000
HECHT LATHAM SPENCER & ASSOCIATES, INC., FORMERLY KNOWN AS HECHT SPENCER & ASSOC	39	$1,350,000
MARSHALL & POPP, LLC	27	$1,130,000
TARPLIN, DOWNS & YOUNG, LLC	14	$950,000
FTI GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS	16	$720,000
BAKER DONELSON BEARMAN CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ	30	$630,000
BALLARD PARTNERS	4	$590,000
CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC	7	$480,000
INVARIANT LLC	6	$480,000
ARTHUR E CAMERON	30	$460,000
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE AND DORR LLP	14	$450,000
MICHAEL BEST STRATEGIES LLC	6	$430,000
ALPINE GROUP PARTNERS, LLC.	9	$365,000
CONFLUENCE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS	12	$350,000
POLICY NAVIGATION GROUP	13	$320,000
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD	7	$320,000
FAEGRE DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP	10	$300,000
SCHUMACHER PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL, LLC	16	$230,000
BECKER & POLIAKOFF, P.A.	9	$210,000
HOLLAND & HART LLP	5	$180,000
AMERICAN DEFENSE INTERNATIONAL	3	$180,000
MR. GREGORY COHEN	34	$170,000
THE FERGUSON GROUP	6	$170,000
FAEGRE BAKER DANIELS CONSULTING	5	$120,000
GOLLEDGE STRATEGIES & SOLUTIONS LLC	10	$105,000
MCKENNA, LONG & ALDRIDGE	6	$60,000
SULLIVAN STRATEGIES LLC (FKA SB CAPITOL SOLUTIONS)	2	$30,000

Issues lobbied

How many report sections named each issue, counting the current version of each report.

Issue	Code	Mentions
Transportation	TRA	193
Environment/Superfund	ENV	176
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code	TAX	175
Budget/Appropriations	BUD	158
Chemicals/Chemical Industry	CHM	157
Health Issues	HCR	155
Roads/Highway	ROD	125
Defense	DEF	111
Energy/Nuclear	ENG	108
Trade (domestic/foreign)	TRD	106
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products	CSP	105
Medicare/Medicaid	MMM	105
Copyright/Patent/Trademark	CPT	90
Disaster Planning/Emergencies	DIS	74
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace	LBR	73

Bills named in its filings

Bill numbers found in the filers' descriptions, most often named first.

Bill	Congress	Times named
H.R. 890	111th	50
H.R. 2454	111th	48
H.R. 1	111th	43
H.R. 523	113th	40
S. 232	113th	40
S. 149	114th	37
H.R. 160	114th	37
S. 1260	117th	31
H.R. 889	111th	26
S. 539	111th	26
S. 638	116th	24
H.R. 535	116th	22
H.R. 9	114th	22
H.R. 2125	111th	22
S. 936	117th	21
H.R. 2029	114th	21
H.R. 1470	114th	21
H.R. 2	114th	21
S. 17	112th	21
S. 791	111th	21
H.R. 3684	117th	20
H.R. 1	119th	19
H.R. 825	112th	19
H.R. 436	112th	19
S. 298	111th	18

From reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. Firms report what each client paid them; an organisation lobbying for itself reports its own expenses. Amounts count the current version of each report once.