Exhibit 1289

Dataset: Lobbying Disclosure Act LD-2 income by registrant, pool of large firms, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026 (Q1 to Q3), with single-quarter snapshots

Exhibit 1289 · Dataset

Dataset: Lobbying Disclosure Act LD-2 income by registrant, pool of large firms, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026 (Q1 to Q3), with single-quarter snapshots

Method: for each year, second-quarter filings of $100,000 or more per client were pulled to find candidates; then every filing for each pool registrant (top 8 candidates plus a fixed list of large firms) was pulled by registrant_id and filing_year and summed (latest posted filing per registrant, client, quarter). Ranking is of the pool only. Top firm by exact income: Akin Gump 2016 $36.23 million and 2017 $39.08 million; Brownstein Hyatt 2021 $56.35 million and 2024 $67.88 million; Ballard Partners 2025 $88.06 million and 2026 to date $97.27 million. Registrant 401108853 reports $20 million in each 2025 quarter and is excluded from rankings. Anonymous API access limits the query; annual all-registrant totals were not derived.

Source: Lacuna derivation from the Lobbying Disclosure Act database (lda.gov REST API)
Date: run 10 November 2026
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://lda.gov/api/v1/filings/
Accessed: 2026-11-10
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit
Note: Saved copy: research/politics-2026-ballard/lda-top-firms-dataset.json (method, pools, tables) sha256 6d5ba8cbc265f275e1e3d1e7e59a054123ca9133ded22739b885a68663f2f6e4; rows: research/politics-2026-ballard/lda-raw-slim-filings.jsonl.gz sha256 fc6927ae112d54f936bbdef2399bdd3ac49ff1c6c745e6ccf068535c7388f5c3. The url is the API endpoint, not a document.

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Finding POL-1.17: Primary record Ballard Partners reported $88.06 million in lobbying income for 2025 and $19.27 million for 2024. For the first three quarters of 2026 it reported $97.27 million: $30.15 million, $32.23 million and $34.89 million.
Finding POL-1.18: Primary record Among the large firms whose filings were pulled in full, the largest single-firm annual lobbying income was $36.23 million (Akin Gump, 2016), $39.08 million (Akin Gump, 2017), $56.35 million (Brownstein Hyatt, 2021), $67.88 million (Brownstein Hyatt, 2024) and $88.06 million (Ballard Partners, 2025).
Finding MED-6.4: Reported Bayer spent $9.19 million on federal lobbying in 2025. Ballard Partners reported $97.27 million in lobbying income for the first three quarters of 2026, and $88.06 million for 2025, in its Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.
Finding POL-6.19: Primary record The Podesta Group's FARA registration (no. 5926) was dated 1 April 2009 and terminated on 31 December 2017, with 33 foreign principals on the registration record. The firm reported $24.04 million in Lobbying Disclosure Act income for 2016 and $18.13 million for 2017.