Electronic Transactions Association

Based in DC

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AI Overview

With $12.7M in lobbying spend across 36 quarterly filings, Electronic Transactions Association is one of the biggest lobbying spenders in Washington. Their lobbying covers 11 issue areas. Active from 2018 to 2025.

$12.7M

Total Spend

Years Active

Firms Hired

Lobbyists Deployed

Issues Lobbied

Spending Trend

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Year	Lobbying Spend
2018	$1.8M
2019	$1.3M
2020	$1.1M
2021	$1.1M
2022	$2.0M
2023	$1.6M
2024	$1.6M
2025	$2.1M

Issues Lobbied

Banking Taxation Telecommunications Copyright/Patent Consumer Issues Tariffs Law Enforcement Trade Small Business Budget/Appropriations Homeland Security

Lobbying Firms

Electronic Transactions Association

Lobbyists

Scott Talbott Rebecca Cantrell Jeffrey Patchen Patrick Russell

What They Lobby About

These are actual descriptions from their quarterly lobbying disclosure filings, summarizing what they lobbied Congress and federal agencies about.Issue areas: Banking, Taxation, Telecommunications, Copyright/Patent, Consumer Issues and 6 more

•Mobile payments, fraud, data security, data storage regulatory reform, tax reporting, payments systems, cyber-security, financial services, merchant cash advances, privacy, the Federal Reserve and big

•Corporate tax reform, tax reporting. H.R. 1, Tax Cut & Jobs Act, H.R. 5192, Protecting Children from Identity Theft Act, and H.R. 5439, to provide for a single point of contact at the Internal Revenue

•Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 reform, robocalling, FCC rules to protect broadband consumer privacy, CFPB and Consumer Access to Financial Records, FCC Petition for Rulemaking and Declarato