Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with operations around the world. Wells Fargo is the fourth largest bank in the US by assets and the second largest bank by market capitalization. Wells Fargo is the second largest bank in deposits, home mortgage servicing, and debit card. In 2007 it was the only bank in the United States to be rated AAA by S&P;, though its rating has since been lowered to AA- in light of the financial crisis of 2007–2010.
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Campaign Finance
$17,270,594 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
$36,753,740 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 Wells Fargo
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Names of Lobbyists
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Firm Hired Amount Wells Fargo $35,103,740 Norwest Corp $1,180,000 HD Vest Financial Services $20,000 -
Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
- Finance,
- Banking,
- Housing,
- Taxes,
- Bankruptcy,
- Agriculture,
- Small Business,
- Copyright, Patent & Trademark,
- Education,
- Retirement
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Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
Bill No. Title H.R.4173 Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of 2010 H.R.3915 Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007 H.R.3126 Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009 H.R.977 Derivatives Markets Transparency and Accountability Act of 2009 H.R.1083 Business Activity Tax Simplification Act of 2009 H.R.1439 Business Activity Tax Simplification Act of 2011 H.R.1859 Housing Finance Reform Act of 2011 H.R.1838 To repeal a provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act prohibiting any Federal bailout of swap dealers or participants. H.R.2682 Business Risk Mitigation and Price Stabilization Act of 2012 H.R.5830 FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeownership Retention Act of 2008
Regulations
Mentioned in 718 dockets; Submitted to 67 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 "Wells Fargo" 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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Advisory Committees
16 people on 14 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 "Wells Fargo" that sat on federal advisory committees.
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