Updated May 2026 · Senate LDA filings
Construction, Lobbying Spending
7 organizations · $34.9M total spend
Construction is a smaller-footprint sector in the index, with 7 tracked organizations reporting $34.9M in cumulative federal lobbying. Spending at this scale typically reflects targeted engagement on a defined set of bills rather than a broad permanent presence.
What These Numbers Mean
Average disclosed spend per organization in Construction is $5.0M, in the seven-figure range. This is the typical band for sectors where most filings come from established corporations and trade associations with steady but not aggressive federal engagement.
Within Construction, the disclosed-spend leader is Associated General Contractors of America at $8.5M, narrowly ahead of Bechtel Group at $6.8M. Sector leadership in this industry has historically rotated as major bills and rulemakings move through Congress.
Every figure on this page is drawn from filings submitted to the Senate Office of Public Records under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995. Filings are quarterly and public domain. The campaign-finance research project at OpenSecrets uses the same Senate LDA filings as one input and frequently provides additional reporting on individual sector filers.
Top Policy Issues
Top-issue coverage for Construction is unusually broad — at least 8 distinct issue areas appear in the sector's aggregated filings, signalling that filers in this industry engage Congress on a wide regulatory front rather than a single defining policy.
Top Spenders in Construction
How to Read This Page
Industry pages aggregate all LobbySpend-tracked filers whose primary business sits in the same sector. The total-spend number is the sum of disclosed dollars across every quarterly LDA filing for those filers in the years tracked, deduplicated against amendments. The per-organization average is the simple mean and is sensitive to the presence of one or two megaspenders — for sectors with extreme top-heaviness, the median is typically a more useful summary, which the underlying data supports if you click through to the individual filer pages.
The top-issues breakdown reflects filer-allocated dollars on each filing — registrants are required to report which general issue areas they lobbied on and, where applicable, how spend was allocated. Issue dollars should be read as a directional signal of where attention is concentrated rather than as audited line items. For the full Influence Score formula and known limitations of LDA disclosures, see the methodology page.
Construction organizations have collectively disclosed $34.9M in federal lobbying across 7 tracked filers, drawn from Senate LDA quarterly disclosure filings.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. federal lobbying disclosure dataset. The detail above comes directly from the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Office LD-2 filings; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. lobbying activity.
Every number on this page links back to the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Office LD-2 filings; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. lobbying activity with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.