American Express

American Express Company (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as AmEx, is a diversified global financial services company headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1850, it is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler's cheque businesses. Amex cards account for approximately 24% of the total dollar volume of credit card transactions in the US, the highest of any card issuer.

Source: Wikipedia

Campaign Finance

Information

Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

Latest FEC Data

covers through committee's June 30, 2012 filing.
Download all contributions to American Express

  • Summary

    overview of the committee's finances
    Total Raised:
    $702,190
    Total Spent:
    $618,786
    Cash on Hand:
    $214,607
    Debts:
    $0

Standardized Donation Information

covers through 2011. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.

  • Top Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.

  • Republicans vs. Democrats

    in dollars

  • State vs. Federal

    in dollars

  • Top PAC Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.
View all campaign finance data for American Express Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$1,560,000 Spent
Information

Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers through Q3, 2011

Lobbying On Behalf of American Express

View all lobbying data for American Express Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

18 Mentions; 1 Submissions
Information

All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated from Regulations.gov on September 27, 2011

The tables show occurrences of "American Express" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

  • Documents Submitted by the Organization
    • Submissions
    • Agency
    • Docket
    • Date
    • Toggle 1 TREAS Determination of Foreign Exchange Swaps and Foreign Exchange Forwards Under the Commodity Exchange Act 2011
  • Mentions in Document Text
    • Mentions
    • Agency
    • Docket
    • Date
    • Toggle 5 OCC Credit Risk Retention by Securitizers 2011
    • Toggle 3 FDA Advisory Committee, Workshops, and Conferences Notices Various Meeting Notices (eg., Task Force Meeting, etc.) 2011
    • Toggle 2 CFPB Defining Larger Participants in Certain Consumer Financial Products and Services Markets 2011
    • Toggle 2 HUD Credit Risk Retention 2011
    • Toggle 2 DOT Order Soliciting Small Community Grant Proposals 2011
    • Toggle 1 OCC Supervisory Guidance on Deposit-Related Consumer Credit Products 2011
    • Toggle 1 FISCAL Garnishment of Accounts Containing Federal Benefit Payments 2011
    • Toggle 1 OSHA Fire Protection in Shipyard Employment (29 CFR part 1915, subpart P) 2011
    • Toggle 1 DOT Marceco Ltd - Certificate - Interstate Charter Air Transportation 2011
    • Toggle 1 FMCSA WSC - In the Matter of Dardino, Inc. - Field Administrator's Notice of Objection to Respondent's Request for Formal Hearing 2011

Advisory Committees

1 person on 1 committee
Information

Data is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.

The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.

covers through 2011

Table shows employees of "American Express" that sat on federal advisory committees.

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle Department of the Treasury 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for American Express