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Money / PACs

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association America's Electric Cooperatives PAC

Trade association PAC FEC C00002972

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Influence at a glance · Jan 2025 – Sep 2026Jan 25 – Sep 26 How we count
PAC giving to candidates$1.5M
Trade association lobbying, all issues $6.8M

Giving: FEC filings, net of refunds. Lobbying: the trade association’s own LD-2 reports, all issues, rounded to the nearest $10,000 each quarter. Two different filers, same 21 months.Lobbying: all issues, rounded to the nearest $10,000. Two filers, same 21 months. This PAC gives money raised from the trade association’s employees or members; the trade association itself can’t give to campaigns from its treasury.

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What they lobby on

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National Rural Electric Cooperative Association reported federal lobbying in 8 of the last 8 quarters (Q4 2024 to Q3 2026), with its own in-house lobbyists and 6 outside firms. What follows is what the filings say it lobbied on, not which way.

Issue areas ranked by quarters filedQ4 24 → Q3 26

  • Agriculture8 of 88/8
  • Budget/Appropriations8 of 88/8
  • Clean Air and Water (quality)8 of 88/8
  • Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV8 of 88/8
  • Defense8 of 88/8
Disaster Planning/Emergencies 8 of 8 · Energy/Nuclear 8 of 8 · 15 more · Show all 22
  • Disaster Planning/Emergencies8 of 88/8
  • Energy/Nuclear8 of 88/8
  • Environment/Superfund8 of 88/8
  • Foreign Relations8 of 88/8
  • Health Issues8 of 88/8
  • Homeland Security8 of 88/8
  • Natural Resources8 of 88/8
  • Postal8 of 88/8
  • Retirement8 of 88/8
  • Taxation/Internal Revenue Code8 of 88/8
  • Telecommunications8 of 88/8
  • Transportation8 of 88/8
  • Utilities8 of 88/8
  • Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)8 of 88/8
  • Railroads6 of 86/8
  • Animals1 of 81/8
  • Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities1 of 81/8

Bills named in the filings 122 bills, this period

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From the filings

“- Issues related to budget reconciliation - H.R. 1873/ S. 674 - The Broadband Grant Tax Treatment Act - H.R. 4128 - CIRCUIT Act”
Q3 2026 filing · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
“Issues related to Rural Utilities Service and rural development”
Q3 2026 filing · Agriculture

Contacted as listed on the filings

  • U.S. House
  • U.S. Senate
  • AgricultureUSDA
  • Homeland SecurityDHS
  • White House Office
  • Environmental Protection AgencyEPA
  • Executive Office of the PresidentEOP
  • InteriorDOI

The House and Senate appear in every quarter; agencies in all 8 quarters.

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Source: Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (LD-2) by National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Senate Office of Public Records. Filings are due 20 days after each quarter ends.

From FEC filings: direct gifts this PAC reported, net of refunds · How we count

Gave directly to 344 sitting members of Congress and 11 other candidates in 2025–26.

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See every candidate and member National Rural Electric Cooperative Association gave to directly, how much, and how its money splits between the parties.

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