Lobbying client

PAYPAL, INC.

global payments platform

The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 12 of its records are shown together here.

Filings
284
Filed by
12
Reported in-house
$14,110,649
Reported by firms
$6,477,000

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 2011 to 2026

Filings

21 filings for 2018, newest first.
Filing Filed by Amount
4th Quarter - Report
4th Quarter 2018
ERIS GROUP $22,500 reported
4th Quarter - Report
4th Quarter 2018
THORN RUN PARTNERS $30,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report
4th Quarter 2018
PAYPAL, INC. $189,900 reported
4th Quarter - Report
4th Quarter 2018
FTI GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS $30,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report
4th Quarter 2018
I STREET ADVOCATES $20,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report
3rd Quarter 2018
ERIS GROUP $22,500 reported
3rd Quarter - Report
3rd Quarter 2018
THORN RUN PARTNERS $30,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report
3rd Quarter 2018
FTI GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS $30,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report
3rd Quarter 2018
I STREET ADVOCATES $20,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report
3rd Quarter 2018
PAYPAL, INC. $202,400 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.

FirmReportsAmount
PAYPAL, INC. In-house 45 $14,110,649
THORN RUN PARTNERS 45 $1,720,000
I STREET ADVOCATES 45 $902,500
MINDSET ADVOCACY, LLC 16 $800,000
FTI GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS 24 $700,000
ERIS GROUP 25 $574,500
FRANKLIN SQUARE GROUP, LLC 13 $510,000
GRAYROBINSON PA 22 $480,000
STERNHELL GROUP 13 $430,000
CAPITOL CHAMBERS STRATEGIES 9 $270,000
MEHLMAN CONSULTING, INC. 4 $70,000
SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP 4 $20,000

Issues lobbied

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

Bills named in its filings

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

BillCongressTimes named
H.R. 2392 119th 26
S. 394 119th 19
H.R. 190 118th 15
H.R. 3633 119th 14
S. 2860 118th 13
H.R. 1 119th 8
S. 26 118th 8
H.R. 3826 117th 8
H.R. 3816 117th 8
H.R. 1813 115th 8
S. 1725 118th 7
H.R. 3550 118th 7
S. 1761 118th 7
H.R. 3825 117th 7
H.R. 3849 117th 7
S. 1582 119th 6
S. 1357 119th 6
S. 1323 118th 6
S. 1706 118th 6
S. 1200 116th 6
H.R. 1595 116th 6
H.J.Res. 73 115th 6
H.J.Res. 62 115th 6
S.J.Res. 19 115th 6
S. 1484 114th 6

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.