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Charter Communications

Charter Communications Inc. Political Action Committee

Corporate PAC FEC C00426775

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Influence at a glance · Jan 2025 – Sep 2026Jan 25 – Sep 26 How we count
PAC giving to candidates$1.3M
Company lobbying, all issues $17.7M

Giving: FEC filings, net of refunds. Lobbying: the company’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 company’s employees; the company itself can’t give to campaigns from its treasury.

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What they lobby on

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Charter Communications reported federal lobbying in 8 of the last 8 quarters (Q4 2024 to Q3 2026), with its own in-house lobbyists and 20 outside firms. What follows is what the filings say it lobbied on, not which way.

Issue areas ranked by quarters filedQ4 24 → Q3 26

  • Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV8 of 88/8
  • Taxation/Internal Revenue Code8 of 88/8
  • Telecommunications8 of 88/8
  • Defense7 of 87/8
  • Government Issues4 of 84/8
Agriculture 1 of 8 · Show all 6
  • Agriculture1 of 81/8

Bills named in the filings 107 bills, this period

102 more, 42 named in only one filing · Show all 107

From the filings

“Mobile phone competition issues; Spectrum policy; Retransmission consent reform; Video reform; Forced relocation; H.R.2784 - Stopping the Theft and Destruction of Broadband Act of 2025; H.R.8870 - BUILD America 250 Act; H.R.9521 - Broadband Infrastructure Extension Act.”
Q3 2026 filing · Telecommunications
“Issues related to telecommunications and mobile phone competition issues (no specific legislation).”
Q3 2026 filing · Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV

Contacted as listed on the filings

  • U.S. House
  • U.S. Senate
  • AgricultureUSDA
  • CommerceDOC
  • Executive Office of the PresidentEOP
  • Federal Communications CommissionFCC
  • Federal Trade CommissionFTC
  • Natl Economic CouncilNEC
  • Office of Science & Technology PolicyOSTP
  • Appalachian Regional Commission
  • Office of the Vice President of the United States
  • Homeland SecurityDHS
  • 4 more

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 Charter Communications, 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 227 sitting members of Congress and 2 other candidates in 2025–26.

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