SOUTHERN 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 28 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

820

Filed by

Reported in-house

$241,350,000

Reported by firms

$26,871,000

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

820 filings, newest first.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	SOUTHERN COMPANY	$3,200,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC	$60,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	FARRAGUT PARTNERS LLP	$30,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	BRACEWELL LLP	$50,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	THE SIMMONS & RUSSELL GROUP, LLC	$60,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	POLARIS-HUTTON GROUP, LLC	$40,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	LJ CONSULTING, LLC	$50,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2026	SOUTHERN COMPANY	$3,220,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2026	MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC	$60,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2026	THE SIMMONS & RUSSELL GROUP, LLC	$60,000 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
SOUTHERN COMPANY In-house	77	$241,350,000
BRACEWELL LLP	77	$5,370,000
LJ CONSULTING, LLC	63	$3,150,000
THE SIMMONS & RUSSELL GROUP, LLC	51	$3,080,000
POLARIS-HUTTON GROUP, LLC	71	$2,490,000
MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC	39	$2,300,000
FARRAGUT PARTNERS LLP	43	$1,930,000
RYAN MACKINNON VASAPOLI AND BERZOK, LLP	32	$1,315,000
THE INGRAM GROUP LLC	17	$900,000
MISSY EDWARDS STRATEGIES, LLC	37	$880,000
LIEBMAN & ASSOCIATES, INC.	74	$840,000
TROUTMAN PEPPER LOCKE, LLP	30	$800,000
GUIDEPOSTSTRATEGIES, LLC	15	$725,000
LTD GROUP, LLC	32	$680,000
MCGUIREWOODS CONSULTING (A SUBSIDIARY OF MCGUIREWOODS LLP)	12	$400,000
THE ACCORD GROUP	21	$381,000
BALCH & BINGHAM, LLP	26	$360,000
INVARIANT LLC	7	$330,000
BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP	5	$310,000
POLARIS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, LLC	7	$180,000
CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC	4	$170,000
MCGUIREWOODS LLP	6	$150,000
THE MAJORITY GROUP, LLC	4	$80,000
BOCKORNY GROUP, INC.	3	$50,000
BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP	2	—
THELEN (FORMERLY, THELEN REID BROWN RAYSMAN & STEINER LLP)	1	—
KILPATRICK TOWNSEND AND STOCKTON	1	—
MINDSET ADVOCACY, LLC	1	—

Issues lobbied

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

Issue	Code	Mentions
Energy/Nuclear	ENG	566
Environment/Superfund	ENV	357
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code	TAX	248
Clean Air and Water (quality)	CAW	202
Utilities	UTI	188
Homeland Security	HOM	146
Transportation	TRA	146
Budget/Appropriations	BUD	116
Commodities (big ticket)	CDT	83
Telecommunications	TEC	79
Small Business	SMB	20
Agriculture	AGR	19
Defense	DEF	11
Disaster Planning/Emergencies	DIS	9
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)	TAR	9

Bills named in its filings

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

Bill	Congress	Times named
H.R. 910	112th	52
S. 482	112th	44
S. 228	112th	44
H.R. 2454	111th	42
H.R. 8	115th	41
S. 231	112th	41
H.R. 2401	112th	40
H.R. 8	114th	36
H.Con.Res. 24	113th	36
H.R. 1319	117th	28
S. 400	112th	26
H.R. 624	113th	25
S. 1733	111th	21
H.R. 5376	117th	19
H.R. 680	116th	18
S. 174	116th	18
H.R. 1551	115th	18
S. 2012	114th	18
H.R. 1	111th	18
S. 1462	111th	18
H.R. 359	116th	17
H.R. 3684	117th	16
H.R. 174	112th	16
H.R. 1	119th	15
H.R. 848	117th	15

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.