Business Roundtable

The Business Roundtable is a politically conservative group of chief executive officers of major U.S. corporations formed to promote pro-business public policy.

Source: Wikipedia

Campaign Finance

$21,500 Given
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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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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.

  • Republicans vs. Democrats

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  • State vs. Federal

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  • Top PAC Recipients

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View all campaign finance data for Business Roundtable Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Lobbying

$21,680,000 Spent
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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 Q3, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of Business Roundtable

  • Names of Lobbyists
  • Firm Hired Amount
    Business Roundtable $21,680,000
    Carbonleaf LLC $130,000
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
    • Taxes,
    • Finance,
    • Energy & Nuclear Power,
    • Trade,
    • Health Issues,
    • Banking,
    • Computers & Information Tech,
    • Environment & Superfund,
    • Fed Budget & Appropriations,
    • Government Issues
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
    Bill No. Title
    H.R.2682 Business Risk Mitigation and Price Stabilization Act of 2012
    H.R.2779 To exempt inter-affiliate swaps from certain regulatory requirements put in place by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
    H.R.1062 Burdensome Data Collection Relief Act
    S.413 Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom Act
    H.R.2401 Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act of 2011
    S.365 Budget Control Act of 2011
    H.R.910 Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011
    H.R.3523 Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011
    H.R.1136 Executive Cyberspace Coordination Act of 2011
    H.R.1610 Business Risk Mitigation and Price Stabilization Act of 2011
  • Recent Lobbying Contracts
    Date Registrant Summary
    May 6, 2013 Penn Hill Group Issues and initiatives as follows: K-12 Higher Education Workforce View registration
View all lobbying data for Business Roundtable Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 66 dockets; Submitted to 7 dockets
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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 "Business Roundtable" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

Advisory Committees

1 person on 1 committee
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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 "Business Roundtable" that sat on federal advisory committees.

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle Department of Labor 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for Business Roundtable