The General Electric Company, or GE (NYSE: GE), is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in the State of New York. The Company operates through five segments: Energy Infrastructure, Technology Infrastructure, NBCUniversal (NBCU), Capital Finance and Consumer & Industrial. In 2010, Forbes ranked GE as the world's second largest company after JPMorgan Chase, based on a formula that compared the total sales, profits, assets, and market value of several multinational companies. The company has 287,000 employees around the world.

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Campaign Finance

$32,751,302 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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    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
    John B. Larson   $22,000
View all campaign finance data for General Electric Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$298,375,000 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 Q3, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of General Electric

View all lobbying data for General Electric Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 2787 dockets; Submitted to 76 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 "General Electric" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

Federal Spending

89 grants; 1,894 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
 General Electric Company 2009 EXERCISE THE FY09 OPTION FOR 114 F414-GE-400 ENGINE INSTALLS, 114 F414-GE-400 DEVICE INSTALLS, AND 2 F414-GE-400 SPARE ENGINES. $438,138,755
contract
 General Electric Company 2003 $400,914,858
contract
 General Electric Company 2001 $399,936,740
contract
 General Electric Company 2003 $344,448,450
contract
 General Electric Company 2007 PROCUREMENT OF FY07 (LOT 11) ENGINES, DEVICES, AND SPARES. DEFINITIZATION OF FY07-11 (LOT 11-15) ENGINES, DEVICES, AND SPARES. $339,759,829
contract
 General Electric Company 2010 THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO EXERCISE THE FY10 OPTION FOR CLINS 0301-0316, 0401 AND 040102 AS STATED HEREIN. $326,080,865
contract
 General Electric Company 2008 EXERCISE OPTION FOR FY08 ENGINES, DEVICES, AND FAN MODULES. $321,694,248
contract
 General Electric Company 2011 THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO EXERCISE THE FY11 OPTION FOR CLINS 0401-0416 AS STATED HEREIN. $256,520,380
contract
 General Electric Company 2009 MODIFICATION TO ADD CY09 WORKLOAD AND INCENTIVE $246,024,555
contract
 General Electric Company 2008 MODIFICATION TO ADD CY08 WORKLOAD, 10 QUICK ENGINES, AND INCENTIVE $233,449,402
View all grant & loan data for General Electric View all contract data for General Electric Sources: USASpending.gov

Contractor Misconduct

49 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
Antitrust None Anticompetitive Conduct in the Municipal Bond Investments Market (SEC Settlement) 2011 Settlement $70,350,000
Tax None Castle Harbour Tax Shelter 2012 Restitution $62,200,000
Securities None Reporting Materially False or Misleading Financial Information in 2002 and 2003 2009 Settlement $50,000,000
Government Contract Fraud Health and Human Servs. Fraudulent Reimbursement Claims for Myoview 2011 Settlement $30,000,000
Ethics International Oil-For-Food Program Illegal Payments 2010 Settlement $23,478,614
Government Contract Fraud Defense - General Selling Defective Airplane and Helicopter Engine Blades 2006 Settlement $11,500,000
Government Contract Fraud Defense - General Johnson v. General Electric (Failure to Meet Product Requirements) 1995 Settlement $9,331,140
Labor None Mody v. General Electric (Age and Racial Discrimination) 2006 Judgment Against Defendant $8,168,562
Government Contract Fraud Defense - General Defrauding the Government by Using a Substitution or Nonconforming Product 1998 Settlement $3,500,000
Consumer Affairs None Unlawful Debt Collection Practices 1998 Settlement $3,000,000
View all contractor misconduct data for General Electric Sources: Federal Contractor Misconduct Database from POGO

EPA Violations

40 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
General Electric Company General Electric Company 2010 Glens Falls, Ny $2,283,000,000
General Electric Company General Electric Company 2003 Glens Falls, Ny $30,000,000
General Electric (Ge) - Rome, Ga (Uao F/Removal & Ri/Fs) General Electric Company (Ge Company) 2004 Rome, Ga $20,000,000
General Electric Company (Hudson River Pcbs) General Electric Company 2002 Glens Falls, Ny $15,000,000
General Electric Company General Electric Company 2010 Milford, Nh $13,103,095
General Electric Company General Electric Company 2006 Hoboken, Nj $2,805,000
Agi-Vr/Wesson Company General Electric Company (+22 others) 2007 Glen Cove, Ny $40,810,000
Alliance Chemical Inc Et Al. General Electric Company (+71 others) 2007 Newark, Nj $37,000,000
Exxon Mobil Corporation (Beede Waste Oil Superfund Site) General Electric-Somerworth (+94 others) 2008 Plaistow, Nh $30,607,481
Air Products & Chemical, Inc Et Al General Electric Company (+40 others) 2005 Elkton, Md $24,500,000
View all EPA violations data for General Electric Sources: EPA ECHO Enforcement Data

Advisory Committees

80 people on 63 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 "General Electric" that sat on federal advisory committees.

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle National Science Foundation 27 people on 17 committees
  • Toggle Department of Commerce 12 people on 11 committees
  • Toggle Department of State 9 people on 5 committees
  • Toggle Environmental Protection Agency 8 people on 4 committees
  • Toggle Department of Health and Human Services 7 people on 7 committees
  • Toggle Department of Defense 3 people on 5 committees
  • Toggle Department of Labor 4 people on 3 committees
  • Toggle Nuclear Regulatory Commission 2 people on 2 committees
  • Toggle Department of Energy 2 people on 2 committees
  • Toggle Office of the United States Trade Representative 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for General Electric