Government Relations donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

Government Relations × 2012

GOVERNMENT RELATIONS plus cycle 2012 equals $892,663. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the two-year federal election cycle was 2012. Lobbyist, government affairs, public affairs, and legislative liaison are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into a Lobbying Disclosure Act registrant list, a Senate LDA roster, or a firm letterhead census. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet.

Parent hubs: Government Relations donations at /occupations/government-relations/ and the 2012 election cycle at /election-cycles/2012/. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $892,663 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Government Relations in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $892,663. In-house versus contract versus association work is unpublished for Government Relations in 2012. The occupation page and the 2012 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees.

GOVERNMENT RELATIONS as typed, not an LDA title

$10.1 million ($10,141,599) belongs to the exact string GOVERNMENT RELATIONS across harvested cycles. It is not a Lobbying Disclosure Act registrant list, a Senate LDA roster, or a firm letterhead census. People who wrote nearby wording — lobbyist, government affairs, public affairs, and legislative liaison — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2012 slice is 8.8% of that title bucket. Share of GOVERNMENT RELATIONS is not share of all 2012 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $892,663. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $10,141,599. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Government Relations donations and the live 2012 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $892,663.

1,156 government-relations receipts in 2012

413 donors and 1,156 receipts — about 2.8 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $772; mean per donor about $2,161. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. 413 donors makes this a mid-size occupation-cycle cell. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 1,156 is a line count, not 413 one-time gifts; about two lines per donor, which is consistent with repeat gifts inside the same two-year window. In-house versus contract versus association work is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by GOVERNMENT RELATIONS. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $892,663.

Occupation versus registrant and PAC tables

Cite $892,663 as Government Relations in 2012. Cite $10,141,599 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add the employer’s own PAC and the registrant’s LDA filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $892,663 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 8.8%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode GOVERNMENT RELATIONS into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation: a presidential-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

How to cite government-relations money in 2012

A clean footnote names occupation GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, election cycle 2012, $892,663 in itemized individual contributions, 1,156 receipts, and 413 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $772 per line and $2,161 per donor in the cell. If the live Government Relations donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 1,156 as unique workers in the trade.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Government Relations donations rolls every cycle into one GOVERNMENT RELATIONS running total. The 2012 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2012 total. Only the Government Relations × 2012 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 1,156 receipts and $892,663. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Questions

How much did government relations filers donate in 2012?

Filers who listed Government Relations itemized $892,663 in FEC individual contributions in 2012, from 1,156 receipts and 413 donors. That is 8.8% of $10,141,599 under GOVERNMENT RELATIONS. Lobbyist, government affairs, public affairs, and legislative liaison are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include lobbying-firm or trade PACs?

No. $892,663 is individual contributions tagged Government Relations in 2012. The employer’s own PAC and the registrant’s LDA filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $892,663 would blend FEC tables. See Government Relations donations or the 2012 election cycle hub for committee names. Government Relations in 2012 is $892,663 on 1,156 receipts from 413 donors.

Are government relations labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses GOVERNMENT RELATIONS. Lobbyist, government affairs, public affairs, and legislative liaison are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a Lobbying Disclosure Act registrant list, a Senate LDA roster, or a firm letterhead census. Cite $892,663 for this title in 2012 on 1,156 receipts from 413 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Government Relations donations ($10.1 million for the string) and the 2012 election cycle. The overlap is $892,663 from 1,156 receipts and 413 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Government Relations in 2012.