McDonald's Corp

McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving more than 58 million customers daily. In addition to its signature restaurant chain, McDonald’s Corporation held a minority interest in Pret A Manger until 2008, was a major investor in the Chipotle Mexican Grill until 2006, and owned the restaurant chain Boston Market until 2007.

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 August 31, 2012 filing.
Download all contributions to McDonald's Corp

  • Summary

    overview of the committee's finances
    Total Raised:
    $959,246
    Total Spent:
    $520,249
    Cash on Hand:
    $1,072,507
    Debts:
    $0

Standardized Donation Information

covers through June 2012. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.

  • Top Recipients

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

  • Republicans vs. Democrats

    in dollars. "Other" includes 3rd parties and organizations without official party affiliation.

  • State vs. Federal

    in dollars

  • Top PAC Recipients

    Employee Color Block
    Individuals
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    PAC
    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.
View all campaign finance data for McDonald's Corp Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$2,560,000 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 Q2, 2012

Lobbying On Behalf of McDonald's Corp

  • Names of Lobbyists
  • Firm Hired Amount
    Gray Global Advisors $300,000
    Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney $180,000
    John Bode LLC $120,000
    Miller & Chevalier $120,000
    Olsson, Frank & Weeda $0
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
    • Food Industry,
    • Taxes,
    • Health Issues,
    • Banking,
    • Agriculture,
    • Immigration,
    • Transportation,
    • Science & Technology,
    • Fuel, Gas & Oil,
    • Advertising
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
    Bill No. Title
    S.510 Research of Alcohol Detection Systems for Stopping Alcohol-related Fatalities Everywhere Act of 2011
    H.R.273 Rural Housing Preservation Act of 2011
    H.R.1081 Consumers Payment System Protection Act
    S.575 Debit Interchange Fee Study Act of 2011
    H.R.1062 Burdensome Data Collection Relief Act
    S.1300 Lincoln Legacy Infrastructure Development Act
    H.R.2749 Nanotechnology Advancement and New Opportunities Act
    H.R.2749 Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009
    H.R.249 To permit Members of Congress to administer the oath of allegiance to applicants for naturalization.
    H.R.3590 Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009
View all lobbying data for McDonald's Corp Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

17 Mentions
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 "McDonald's Corp" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

  • Mentions in Document Text
    • Mentions
    • Agency
    • Docket
    • Date
    • Toggle 11 DOS 60–Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: DS–5513, Biographical Questionnaire for U.S. Passport, 1405–XXXX 2011
    • Toggle 10 FDA Food Labeling; Nutrition Labeling of Standard Menu Items in Restaurants and Similar Retail Food Establishments 2011
    • Toggle 3 FDA Food Labeling; Calorie Labeling of Articles of Food in Vending Machines 2011
    • Toggle 1 FMCSA Pilot Program on NAFTA Long-Haul Trucking Provisions 2011
    • Toggle 1 FDA Preventive Controls for Registered Human Food and Animal Food/Feed Facilities; Request for Comments 2011
    • Toggle 1 LMSO Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act; Interpretation of the "Advice" Exemption 2011
    • Toggle 1 EPA Improving Regulations: General 2011
    • Toggle 1 EPA Proposed approval of San Joaquin Valley APCD Rule 4692, Commericial charbroiling; submitted May 17, 2010. 2011
    • Toggle 1 EPA Sixty-Eighth Report of the TSCA Interagency Testing Committee to the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2011
    • Toggle 1 NLRB Proposed rule amending representation-case procedures 2011