MICROSOFT CORPORATION — 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 80 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

1,873

Filed by

Reported in-house

$175,769,000

Reported by firms

$75,477,500

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

108 filings for 2020, newest first.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2020	WEST FRONT STRATEGIES LLC	$60,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2020	FEDERAL POLICY GROUP, LLC	$40,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2020	COVINGTON & BURLING LLP	$50,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2020	MICROSOFT CORPORATION	$2,190,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2020	MONUMENT ADVOCACY	$60,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2020	LOT SIXTEEN LLC	$50,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2020	CORY CROWLEY & COMPANY, LLC	$15,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2020	CORNERSTONE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, INC.	$90,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Termination (No Activity) 3rd Quarter 2020	MERCURY PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC	— reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2020	POLARIS-HUTTON 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
MICROSOFT CORPORATION In-house	77	$175,759,000
TIBER CREEK GROUP	77	$6,030,000
COVINGTON & BURLING LLP	60	$4,500,000
CORNERSTONE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, INC.	59	$4,110,000
MONUMENT ADVOCACY	70	$4,045,000
PENN HILL GROUP	55	$3,580,000
POLARIS-HUTTON GROUP, LLC	57	$3,370,000
CGCN GROUP, LLC	53	$3,195,000
FEDERAL POLICY GROUP, LLC	71	$3,190,000
D&P CREATIVE STRATEGIES, LLC	77	$3,035,000
ERNST & YOUNG LLP (WASHINGTON COUNCIL ERNST & YOUNG)	77	$2,830,000
HOLLIER & ASSOCIATES	77	$2,405,000
AVOQ, LLC	38	$2,370,000
WEST FRONT STRATEGIES LLC	40	$2,160,000
THE GIBSON GROUP, LLC	63	$1,910,000
SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS	24	$1,620,000
VENTURE GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES, LLC (FKA HOBART HALLAWAY & QUAYLE VENTURES, LLC)	30	$1,590,000
STEWART STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS, LLC	31	$1,560,000
PAUL HASTINGS LLP	7	$1,540,000
ELEVATE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, LLC	28	$1,450,000
FIDELIS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS	44	$1,431,000
LOT SIXTEEN LLC	24	$1,180,000
ADUSTON CONSULTING, LLC	47	$1,120,000
CASSIDY & ASSOCIATES, INC.	21	$1,090,000
STANTON PARK GROUP	27	$1,080,000
ACG ADVOCACY	16	$1,030,000
BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN LLP	11	$1,010,000
FIFESTRATEGIES, LLC	20	$850,000
10-SQUARE SOLUTIONS	16	$840,000
BRIAN FITZGERALD	16	$832,500
SIGNAL GROUP CONSULTING, LLC	19	$780,000
FORZA DC, LLC	23	$750,000
HARBINGER STRATEGIES, LLC	12	$720,000
ADVANCED POLICY CONSULTING, LLC	24	$590,000
BRYAN CAVE LEIGHTON PAISNER LLP	12	$560,000
POLARIS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, LLC	7	$520,000
FBA, INC.	16	$454,000
MICHAEL BEST STRATEGIES LLC	7	$390,000
K&L GATES, LLP	6	$360,000
RYAN MACKINNON VASAPOLI AND BERZOK, LLP	7	$340,000
CORLEY CONSULTING, LLC	17	$330,000
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD	7	$330,000
FOLEY HOAG LLP	8	$320,000
IMPACT STRATEGIES LLC	15	$310,000
HOWARD WOOLLEY GROUP, LLC	15	$300,000
BLANK ROME GOVERNMENT RELATIONS	12	$270,000
PCT GOVERNMENT RELATIONS	4	$270,000
CORY CROWLEY & COMPANY, LLC	17	$245,000
SEXTONS CREEK	8	$230,000
SIXKILLER CONSULTING, LLC	8	$220,000
BLOOM STRATEGIC COUNSEL	13	$190,000
KING & SPALDING LLP	5	$170,000
TRACTION STRATEGIC	7	$165,000
GROOM LAW GROUP, CHARTERED	32	$160,000
HILLTOP ADVOCACY	17	$160,000
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE AND DORR LLP	39	$150,000
TWINLOGIC STRATEGIES, LLP	8	$150,000
QGA PUBLIC AFFAIRS (FORMERLY QUINN GILLESPIE & ASSOCIATES)	4	$130,000
THE RABEN GROUP	4	$120,000
SC PARTNERS LLC	6	$113,000
ERIS GROUP	5	$110,000
MAYNARD NEXSEN PC	2	$100,000
FEROX STRATEGIES	4	$90,000
NAVIGATORS GLOBAL LLC (FORMERLY DC NAVIGATORS, LLC)	1	$75,000
FEDERAL STRATEGY GROUP	6	$67,000
PLATINUM ADVISORS DC, LLC	4	$60,000
BOSE PUBLIC AFFAIRS GROUP	5	$40,000
GLOBAL STRATEGIC PARTNERS, LLC	3	$40,000
SHIPP & ASSOCIATES	1	$40,000
FTI GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS	2	$30,000
MERCURY PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC	2	$20,000
CLARK & WEINSTOCK	1	$20,000
RIVENDELL GROUP LLP	1	$20,000
HODGKINS CONSULTING, LLC	2	$15,000
BRYAN CAVE STRATEGIES LLC	1	$10,000
SCHMITZ GLOBAL PARTNERS LLP	2	—
BAKER & MCKENZIE, LLP	2	—
ARNOLD & PORTER KAYE SCHOLER LLP	2	—
GALLATIN PUBLIC AFFAIRS	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	798
Immigration	IMM	686
Computer Industry	CPI	628
Telecommunications	TEC	583
Copyright/Patent/Trademark	CPT	359
Trade (domestic/foreign)	TRD	319
Science/Technology	SCI	316
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace	LBR	274
Homeland Security	HOM	263
Education	EDU	234
Budget/Appropriations	BUD	200
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products	CSP	176
Intelligence	INT	173
Environment/Superfund	ENV	145
Defense	DEF	137

Bills named in its filings

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

Bill	Congress	Times named
H.R. 1174	114th	97
S. 512	114th	62
H.R. 5376	117th	51
S. 1260	117th	50
H.R. 422	111th	47
S. 169	113th	44
H.R. 387	115th	38
H.R. 2272	110th	37
H.R. 1560	114th	36
S. 744	113th	35
S. 773	111th	34
H.R. 1834	112th	31
H.R. 942	112th	31
H.R. 1	111th	31
H.R. 2131	113th	30
H.R. 2138	110th	30
H.R. 9	114th	29
S. 754	114th	28
S. 356	114th	28
S. 1137	114th	27
H.R. 699	114th	25
S. 153	114th	25
S. 1409	118th	23
H.R. 4521	117th	23
S. 1203	111th	23

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.