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Rankings From the Current Record
Compare federal contractor, agency, lobbying, revolving-door, and organization-linked PAC records currently stored by The Paper Trail Project. Each ranking reflects the scope and update period of its underlying source data.
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Largest Federal Contractors in Paper Trail
Organizations ranked by the latest federal obligations stored in Paper Trail, with direct links to each sourced organization record.
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Largest Organization-Linked PACs
Political committees ranked by current-cycle contributions and independent expenditures recorded by the FEC and synchronized by Paper Trail.
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Organizations Receiving Money From the Most Agencies
Organizations ranked by the number of top-tier federal awarding agencies represented in their latest stored obligation breakdown.
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Highest Recorded Single-Agency Shares
Organizations ranked by the share of their latest stored federal obligations attributed to one top-tier awarding agency.
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Largest Reported Lobbying Spenders
Organizations ranked by latest-year federal lobbying expenses or outside-firm income in synchronized LDA filings.
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Largest Increases in Reported Lobbying
Organizations ranked by the dollar increase between the two latest years represented in synchronized LDA filings.
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Largest Outside Lobbying Firms in Paper Trail
Lobbying registrants ranked by latest-year income reported in synchronized federal LDA filings connected to tracked organizations.
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Most Documented Revolving-Door Career Records
People ranked by the number of published, source-backed positions and lobbying connections in Paper Trail's revolving-door dataset.
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