AARP — 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

575

Filed by

Reported in-house

$283,839,000

Reported by firms

$12,736,158

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

575 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	CM STRATEGIC, LLC	$40,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	H&M STRATEGIES LLP	$30,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	MEHLMAN CONSULTING, INC.	$50,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	THORN RUN PARTNERS	$40,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	AARP	$4,570,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	PACESETTER STRATEGIES FORMERLY KNOWN AS K. BLACK STRATEGIES LLC	— reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	CORNERSTONE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, INC.	$50,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	HARPER & BAILEY GOVERNMENTAL SOLUTIONS LLC	$37,500 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2026	CM STRATEGIC, LLC	$40,000 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
AARP In-house	77	$283,839,000
ALIGNMENT GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES	47	$1,980,000
THORN RUN PARTNERS	47	$1,960,000
MEHLMAN CONSULTING, INC.	30	$1,440,000
CORNERSTONE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, INC.	14	$700,000
ARTICLE ONE GROUP, LLC	20	$645,000
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD	9	$620,000
WATKINS & EAGER PLLC	20	$610,000
REINECKE STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS, INC.	68	$589,000
QGA PUBLIC AFFAIRS (FORMERLY QUINN GILLESPIE & ASSOCIATES)	26	$530,000
TKB GLOBAL STRATEGIES, LLC	26	$490,000
NVG, LLC	17	$450,000
ROBERTI GLOBAL (F/K/A ROBERTI WHITE, LLC)	11	$420,000
DLA PIPER LLP (US)	14	$350,000
THEGROUP DC, LLC	7	$350,000
HARPER & BAILEY GOVERNMENTAL SOLUTIONS LLC	8	$287,500
LXR GROUP	10	$254,658
SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS	9	$240,000
VENN STRATEGIES	5	$240,000
H&M STRATEGIES LLP	7	$210,000
SLOANE STRATEGIES, LLC (FKA: FIRST STREET STRATEGIES, LLC)	7	$130,000
CM STRATEGIC, LLC	3	$120,000
CONSUMER POLICY SOLUTIONS	8	$50,000
MADISON SERVICES GROUP, INC	6	$40,000
MISSY EDWARDS STRATEGIES, LLC	2	$30,000
PACESETTER STRATEGIES FORMERLY KNOWN AS K. BLACK STRATEGIES LLC	14	—
MRS. EMILY HETHERINGTON	6	—
MERCURY PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC	3	—

Issues lobbied

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

Issue	Code	Mentions
Health Issues	HCR	334
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code	TAX	259
Medicare/Medicaid	MMM	223
Budget/Appropriations	BUD	214
Retirement	RET	192
Transportation	TRA	125
Telecommunications	TEC	109
Pharmacy	PHA	105
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace	LBR	96
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties	CIV	87
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities	FIN	86
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption	FAM	68
Government Issues	GOV	68
Housing	HOU	66
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products	CSP	64

Bills named in its filings

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

Bill	Congress	Times named
H.R. 748	116th	59
H.Con.Res. 25	113th	47
H.R. 5376	117th	46
S.Con.Res. 8	113th	46
H.R. 6201	116th	45
S.Con.Res. 11	114th	45
H.R. 933	113th	41
S. 3109	118th	37
S. 3548	116th	35
S. 3254	118th	34
H.R. 3	116th	34
H.R. 3321	117th	33
S. 2543	116th	33
S. 925	119th	31
H.R. 7222	118th	31
H.R. 1628	115th	31
H.Con.Res. 27	114th	31
H.R. 7165	118th	30
S. 3702	118th	30
H.J.Res. 99	115th	30
H.R. 244	115th	30
H.R. 2029	114th	30
H.R. 2775	113th	30
H.R. 6800	116th	27
H.R. 2036	119th	26

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.