Campaign Finance

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.

Latest FEC Data

covers through committee's March 31, 2009 filing.
Download all contributions to AT&T Inc

  • Summary

    overview of the committee's finances
    Total Raised:
    $4,763,619
    Total Spent:
    $5,364,030
    Cash on Hand:
    $446,491
    Debts:
    $0

Standardized Donation Information

covers roughly through Q4 2012. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.

  • 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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    PAC
    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

$30,132,251 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.

Lobbying on Behalf of AT&T Inc

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

Regulations

Mentioned in 417 dockets; Submitted to 16 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

50 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.

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 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
contract
 At&T Corp 2009 FUND 1 YEAR EXT PARTIAL THRU NOV 09. $9,331,546
contract
 At&T Corp. 2009 Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services MEDICARE DATA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK $9,125,975
contract
 At&T Corp 2010 ACRN-CS M6785410RCS2FM8 $8,722,491
contract
 At&T Corp 2010 EXERCISE & FUND OPTION PERIOD 2 $8,257,398
contract
 At&T Corp 2010 FUND 6 MONTH OPTION FROM 01 DEC 2009 THRU 31 MAY 2010 $8,077,086
contract
 At&T Corp 2009 ACRN CB - M6785409RC-DEI37 $6,432,971
contract
 At&T Corp 2010 ACRN CD - M9470510RC00059 $6,400,919
contract
 At&T Corp 2009 C4I IT SUPPORT $6,093,475
contract
 At&T Corp. 2010 Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services MEDICARE DATA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK $5,290,000
View all grant & loan data for AT&T Inc View all contract data for AT&T Inc Sources: USASpending.gov

Contractor Misconduct

7 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.

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
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 Hyldahl v. AT&T (FMLA Violation) 2009 Judgment Against Defendant $523,349
Labor None EEOC v. AT&T (Disability Discrimination) 2009 Settlement $60,000
Labor None EEOC v. AT&T (Age Discrimination) 2009 Pending $0
View all contractor misconduct data for AT&T Inc Sources: Federal Contractor Misconduct Database from POGO

Advisory Committees

26 people on 16 committees
Information

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.

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

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle National Science Foundation 12 people on 6 committees
  • Toggle Department of State 5 people on 2 committees
  • Toggle Federal Communications Commission 4 people on 3 committees
  • Toggle Department of Homeland Security 3 people on 2 committees
  • Toggle Department of Commerce 3 people on 3 committees
View all advisory committee data for AT&T Inc