The University of Texas at Austin (also referred to as the University of Texas, UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university located in Austin, Texas, United States, and is the flagship institution of The University of Texas System. The main campus is located approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km) from the Texas State Capitol. Founded in 1883, the university has the fifth-largest single-campus enrollment in the nation as of fall 2010 (and had the largest enrollment in the country from 1997–2003), with over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 16,500 faculty and staff. It currently holds the largest enrollment of all colleges in the state of Texas.
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Campaign Finance
$3,838,210 GivenFigures 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.
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Lobbying
$6,730,320 SpentFigures 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 University of Texas
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Names of Lobbyists
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Firm Hired Amount University of Texas $6,000,320 Fleishman-Hillard Inc $37,855 -
Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
- Health Issues,
- Medicare & Medicaid,
- Fed Budget & Appropriations,
- Education,
- Taxes,
- Science & Technology,
- Medical Research & Clin Labs,
- Energy & Nuclear Power,
- Defense,
- Copyright, Patent & Trademark
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Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
Bill No. Title H.R.1 Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 S.717 21st Century Cancer ALERT (Access to Life-Saving Early detection, Research and Treatment) Act H.R.2147 Utah Land Sovereignty Act H.R.3333 Minority Health Improvement and Health Disparity Elimination Act H.R.3533 The Public and Teaching Hospital Preservation Act H.R.5613 Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 2008 S.1576 Minority Health Improvement and Health Disparity Elimination Act S.2460 H.R.4137 College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 H.R.5325 America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010
Regulations
Mentioned in 996 dockets; Submitted to 39 docketsAll 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.
The tables show occurrences of "University of Texas" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.
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Documents Submitted by the Organization
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Mentions in Document Text
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Federal Spending
4 grantsFederal 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 |
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University Of Texas | 2001 | Federal Railroad Administration | ADVANCED LOCOMOTIVE PROPULSION SYSTEM X | $3,761,640 |
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University Of Texas | 2002 | Federal Railroad Administration | ADVANCED LOCOMOTIVE PROPULSION SYSTEM X | $3,529,853 |
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University Of Texas | 2003 | National Institutes Of Health | $3,494,080 | |
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University Of Texas | 2002 | National Institutes Of Health | $2,138,478 |
Advisory Committees
1945 people on 326 committeesData 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 "University of Texas" that sat on federal advisory committees.
View all advisory committee data for University of Texas