Campaign Finance

$88,768,508 Given
Information

Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

covers through Q3 2012

  • Top Recipients

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    Individuals
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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.

  • Republicans vs. Democrats

    in dollars. "Other" includes 3rd parties and organizations without official party affiliation.

  • State vs. Federal

    in dollars

  • Top PAC Recipients

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    Individuals
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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.

  • Bundled Contributions

    Money raised by the firm from multiple donors on behalf of the recipient. The firm's own contributions are not included.
    Recipient Lobbyist Amount
    National Republican Congressional Cmte   $24,500
    Joseph Crowley   $23,000
    Patty Murray   $20,750
View all campaign finance data for AT&T Inc Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$209,184,310 Spent
Information

Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers roughly through Q4, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of AT&T Inc

View all lobbying data for AT&T Inc Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 2918 dockets; Submitted to 33 dockets
Information

All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated daily from Regulations.gov by way of Docket Wrench

The tables show occurrences of "AT&T Inc" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

Federal Spending

307 contracts
Information

Federal grants, contracts and loans are reported by federal agencies using the FPDS and FAADS systems. The data is made available to the public at USASpending.gov. Please note that the completeness and quality of the data varies greatly by agency.

Only grants, contracts and loans with amounts over $1 million are shown.

Because company names are not reported in a standardized manner, we cannot reliably determine the company receiving the contract or award. The results shown here are based on a search for the company name. Individual records may be missed or erroneously included because of name variations. For more information, please see our federal spending methodology page.

covers through USASpending.gov's Sept. 15, 2012 release for contracts and Oct. 19, 2012 for grants.

Note: Company names in federal spending data are not standardized. The table below is included only as a sample of what is available in the data and has not been reviewed for accuracy or completeness. To investigate the data further, use the links at the bottom of the table.

Type Recipient Name Year Agency Description Amount
contract
 At&T Corp 2003 $68,904,913
contract
 At&T Corp. 2011 DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS NETWORK (DISN) VIDEO SERVICES - GLOBAL (DVS-G) $67,596,231
contract
 At&T Corp 2002 $55,246,525
contract
 At&T Corp 2004 $51,134,811
contract
 At&T Corp 2001 $51,006,634
contract
 At&T Corp 2000 $47,700,374
contract
 At&T Corp. 2013 DISN VIDEO SERVICES - GLOBAL $34,734,553
contract
 At&T Corp 2002 $19,239,044
contract
 At&T Corp 2005 $16,957,662
contract
 At&T Corp 2009 OBLIGATES FUNDING FOR ADDITIONAL CLIN 1307AU CDRL A020 AND ALSO CORRECTS TOTAL FUNDING, SO THAT THE TOTAL FUNDING REPORTED ON THE CAR MATCHES THE TOTAL AMOUNT OBLIGATED. SOME PREVIOUS ERRORS OR OMISSIONS MUST HAVE OCCURRED, SINCE THE PREVIOUS TOTAL DID NOT MATCH THE CONTRACT OBLIGATED AMOUNT. THIS CORRECCTION SHOULD MAKE THE TOTAL OBLIGATION FOR THE ORDER BE CORRECT AT $91,712,860.29 THRU NOVEMBER 2009). $14,551,757
View all grant & loan data for AT&T Inc View all contract data for AT&T Inc Sources: USASpending.gov

Contractor Misconduct

14 Instances
Information

This information is collected by the Project On Government Oversight from press releases, court documents, news reports and other public records. It is not meant to be an exhaustive account of all instances of federal contractor misconduct.

More information on each instance, including primary source documents, is available on POGO's site by clicking on the instance description. More information on POGO's methodology is available here.

covers through POGO's March 5, 2013 release
Misconduct Type Hired By Incident Year Disposition Penalty
Labor None Waters v. AT&T (Overtime Pay) 2010 Settlement $17,000,000
Consumer Affairs None False Claims Involving the E-Rate Program 2009 Settlement $8,266,414
Government Contract Fraud GSA Overbilling the Federal Government for Telephone Services 2006 Settlement $2,946,000
Other None Civil Contempt 2009 Settlement $2,050,000
Consumer Affairs None False Claims Involving E-Rate Program in Missouri 2009 Settlement $1,400,000
Labor None Religious Discrimination 2007 Judgment Against Defendant $756,000
Labor None Hyldahl v. AT&T (FMLA Violation) 2009 Judgment Against Defendant $523,349
Consumer Affairs None Do-Not-Call Violation 2004 Fine $490,000
Labor None Edwards v. Southwestern Bell Telephone (Racial Discrimination) 2008 Judgment Against Defendant $411,339
Consumer Affairs None Fair Credit Reporting Act Violation 2004 Settlement $365,000
View all contractor misconduct data for AT&T Inc Sources: Federal Contractor Misconduct Database from POGO

EPA Violations

4 Enforcement Actions
Information

Figures are based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s ECHO website. The ECHO database contains federal and state environmental enforcement actions. Data displayed here includes only those actions that began after 2000 and resulted in fines of over $1 million.

Actions where the company was the sole defendant are listed first. Actions where the company is one of multiple defendants are listed subsequently.

For more information see our EPA methodology page.

covers through EPA's October 19, 2011 release
Case Name Defendant Date Locations Amount
Industrial Pollution Control (Ipc) (Cost Recovery Agmt) Bellsouth Telecommunications, Inc. (+236 others) 2003 Jackson, Ms $3,440,369
Florida Petroleum Reprocessors Southern Bell (+583 others) 2004 Fort Lauderdale, Fl $2,316,314
Whitehouse Waste Oil Pits Superfund Site Bellsouth Telecommunications, Inc. (+50 others) 2003 Whitehouse, Fl $1,991,380
Nl Industries/Taracorp Lead Smelter (De Minimis) Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (+77 others) 2004 Granite City, Il $1,960,888
View all EPA violations data for AT&T Inc Sources: EPA ECHO Enforcement Data

Advisory Committees

208 people on 83 committees
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Data is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.

The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.

covers through 2011

Table shows employees of "AT&T Inc" that sat on federal advisory committees.

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle National Science Foundation 106 people on 37 committees
  • Toggle Department of State 45 people on 2 committees
  • Toggle Federal Communications Commission 25 people on 11 committees
  • Toggle Department of Defense 13 people on 13 committees
  • Toggle Department of Commerce 9 people on 7 committees
  • Toggle Department of Homeland Security 7 people on 2 committees
  • Toggle Department of Health and Human Services 2 people on 1 committee
  • Toggle Office of the United States Trade Representative 2 people on 2 committees
  • Toggle Department of the Treasury 2 people on 2 committees
  • Toggle National Endowment for the Arts 2 people on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for AT&T Inc