EBAY INC. — 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 31 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

605

Filed by

Reported in-house

$37,025,138

Reported by firms

$16,244,841

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

24 filings for 2021, newest first.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2021	EBAY INC.	$340,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2021	THE GIBSON GROUP, LLC	$30,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2021	AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD	$30,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2021	THE RABEN GROUP	$40,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2021	THORN RUN PARTNERS	$60,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2021	FRANKLIN SQUARE GROUP, LLC	$50,000 reported
Registration 4th Quarter 2021	AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD	— reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2021	THORN RUN PARTNERS	$60,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2021	FRANKLIN SQUARE GROUP, LLC	$50,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2021	THE GIBSON GROUP, LLC	$30,000 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
EBAY INC. In-house	77	$37,025,138
THORN RUN PARTNERS	43	$2,490,000
THE GIBSON GROUP, LLC	59	$1,570,000
ML STRATEGIES, LLC	35	$1,400,000
FRANKLIN SQUARE GROUP, LLC	26	$1,180,000
MEHLMAN CONSULTING, INC.	26	$1,145,000
FIERCE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS	14	$820,000
MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC	8	$820,000
FTI GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS	25	$755,000
CLARK & WEINSTOCK	18	$700,000
C2 GROUP, LLC	23	$690,000
MERCURY PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC	19	$670,000
ERIS GROUP	31	$636,000
AVOQ, LLC	11	$620,000
CGCN GROUP, LLC	7	$420,000
THE RABEN GROUP	9	$400,000
TELEMEDIA POLICY CORP.	9	$330,000
I STREET ADVOCATES	11	$290,000
OFF HILL STRATEGIES L.L.C.	20	$275,000
THE JBH GROUP, LLC	11	$210,000
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD	10	$210,000
LECLAIRRYAN, PC	11	$208,841
DENTONS US LLP	2	$120,000
WEXLER \| WALKER, A UNIT OF HILL+KNOWLTON STRATEGIES, LLC	9	$90,000
MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS, LLP	2	$50,000
JAMES (GAVIN) MATHIS	3	$45,000
DLA PIPER LLP (US)	11	$40,000
BLANK ROME GOVERNMENT RELATIONS	3	$40,000
MITCHELL SILBERBERG & KNUPP, LLP	18	$10,000
THREE BRIDGES ADVISORS, INC.	1	$10,000
SANDLER, TRAVIS & ROSENBERG, P.A.	1	—

Issues lobbied

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

Issue	Code	Mentions
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code	TAX	435
Trade (domestic/foreign)	TRD	248
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products	CSP	222
Copyright/Patent/Trademark	CPT	204
Computer Industry	CPI	204
Postal	POS	187
Telecommunications	TEC	183
Small Business	SMB	116
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice	LAW	101
Banking	BAN	78
Immigration	IMM	65
Science/Technology	SCI	53
Homeland Security	HOM	47
Environment/Superfund	ENV	44
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities	FIN	22

Bills named in its filings

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

Bill	Congress	Times named
S. 336	113th	79
H.R. 684	113th	74
H.Res. 95	112th	60
S. 1260	117th	56
S. 743	113th	45
S. 698	114th	44
S. 1452	112th	42
S. 936	117th	37
H.R. 2775	114th	37
H.R. 2701	112th	36
S. 1832	112th	34
H.R. 3179	112th	34
S. 148	111th	33
H.R. 2669	111th	32
S. 1843	117th	31
H.R. 190	118th	28
S. 26	118th	28
H.R. 2193	115th	27
S. 976	115th	27
H.R. 644	114th	27
S. 968	112th	26
S. 470	111th	26
S. 1761	118th	25
H.R. 7079	117th	25
S.Res. 309	112th	24

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.