📋 Urban Development/Municipalities (URB)

Federal lobbying activity for the urban development/municipalities issue area

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AI Overview

Urban Development/Municipalities (URB) has attracted $135.8M in lobbying spending across 7,206 filings. This issue area sees targeted lobbying from organizations with specific policy interests.

$135.8M

Total Spending

7,206

Total Filings

$79.3M

Estimated Spending

Spending by Year

Top Clients

#	Client	Spending
1	City of New Orleans	$1.9M
2	Columbus Chamber of Commerce	$1.6M
3	City of Portland	$1.4M
4	County of San Bernardino, Ca	$1.3M
5	Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago	$1.3M
6	San Francisco International Airport	$1.3M
7	City of Dallas	$1.2M
8	City of Las Vegas	$1.2M
9	Enterprise Community Partners, INC.	$1.2M
10	Miami-dade County	$1.2M
11	Riverside Co. Flood Control & Water Conservation District	$1.2M
12	San Antonio River Authority	$1.1M
13	City of Mesa	$1.1M
14	Broward County, Fl	$1.1M
15	Los Angeles County Development Authority	$1.1M
16	El Paso Water Utilities -- Public Service Board DBA El Paso Water	$1.0M
17	California State Coastal Conservancy	$1.0M
18	City of Glenwood Springs, Co	$950K
19	City and Borough of Sitka	$940K
20	City of Mcallen, Texas	$900K

Top Lobbying Firms

#	Firm	Revenue
1	Sustainable Strategies DC	$11.7M
2	Squire Patton Boggs	$9.6M
3	Cfm Strategic Communications (Conkling Fiskum & Mccormick)	$9.1M
4	Thorn Run Partners	$9.0M
5	Van Scoyoc Associates	$8.4M
6	David Turch & Assoc.	$6.8M
7	O'connell & Dempsey, LLC	$5.6M
8	Capitaledge Strategies, LLC	$4.9M
9	Capitaledge Advocacy INC. (Formerly Capitaledge Advocacy, LLC)	$3.5M
10	Keller Partners & Company	$2.9M
11	Holland & Knight LLP	$2.8M
12	Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP DBA Taft Advisors LLC FKA (Taft, Stettinius & Ho	$2.8M
13	Smith Garson FKA Smith Dawson & Andrews	$2.4M
14	Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP	$2.4M
15	Strategics Consulting, LLC	$1.9M
16	Potomac Partners DC	$1.8M
17	Elevate Government Affairs, LLC	$1.8M
18	Alignment Government Strategies	$1.6M
19	Alcalde & Fay	$1.5M
20	Capitol Counsel LLC	$1.4M

Sample Lobbying Descriptions

•DACA, immigration reform, federal higher education policy, federal grant funding for; research; higher education programs; and community colleges.

•To promote the City of McAllens economic, policy, and budget priorities, particularly in the areas of cross-border trade, economic development, and infrastructure.

•Appropriations and authorization regarding water resources

•Issues related to barriers to housing production

•Funding for building construction and municipal and public building construction and finance

•Liaison with White House, federal agencies and congressional officials on behalf of County regarding DC visits and general priorities/initiatives (housing/homelessness/immigration).

•HR 244 (Public Law No: 115-31) Consolidated Appropriations Act 2017; H.J. Res. 99 (Public Law No: 115-30), Continuing Resolution for Appropriations for remainder of FY2017; America First: A Budget Blu

•Advocacy on behalf of a TIGER grant application for the Ashley River Crossing project

•Flood protection issues related to airport infrastructure

•Lobbied for issues related to urban development.