What were AIPAC’s federal lobbying expenditures in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 according to OpenSecrets’ lobbying database?

1. What OpenSecrets reports explicitly for 2022

OpenSecrets’ coverage cited in these sources states that during the 2022 election cycle AIPAC spent “over $2.7 million” on lobbying related to the Israel–Hamas conflict and broader legislative activity tied to that period ^{[1] [2]}. That figure is repeatedly referenced in OpenSecrets’ site excerpts and news summaries, which frame the $2.7 million as part of AIPAC’s 2022 lobbying and political activity reporting ^{[1] [2]}.

2. What the supplied reporting shows — and what it doesn’t — for 2019–2021

The snippets and pages supplied include OpenSecrets’ organization profile and search indexes for AIPAC but do not display discrete annual lobbying totals for 2019, 2020 or 2021 in the excerpts provided to this report ^{[3] [4]}. A related historical reference — drawn from Wikipedia quoting OpenSecrets — notes AIPAC spent $3.5 million on lobbying in 2018, but that is an earlier datapoint and not part of the requested 2019–2021 sequence ^[5]. Therefore, based solely on the supplied material, the precise OpenSecrets-reported federal lobbying expenditures for 2019, 2020 and 2021 cannot be affirmed here because those annual figures are not contained in the provided sources ^{[3] [4]}.

3. Where OpenSecrets organizes this data and why numbers can be hard to extract from summaries

OpenSecrets maintains organization profiles, news pages and searchable databases that compile lobbying disclosures and campaign-finance data; those tools are cited across the supplied excerpts as the repository for AIPAC’s lobbying history ^{[3] [4]}. However, site summaries and news pieces often highlight notable totals or cycle-level aggregates (for example, the 2022 “over $2.7 million” lobbying reference) rather than listing each calendar year’s federal lobbying line-item in the short snippets provided here ^{[1] [2]}. That editorial selection — emphasizing cycle-level context or high-profile totals — can create the impression of incomplete transparency in derivative excerpts even when detailed year-by-year data exist on OpenSecrets’ live pages ^{[3] [4]}.

4. Alternative records and the next steps for exact annual figures

OpenSecrets compiles Senate and federal lobbying disclosure data and is the likely place to find the requested annual figures; the specific OpenSecrets AIPAC profile and search tools are cited in the materials and should contain the detailed, year-by-year lobbying totals for 2019–2022 if consulted directly ^{[3] [4]}. In addition to OpenSecrets’ own interface, the underlying primary filings come from Senate lobbying disclosure records — consulting those filings or using OpenSecrets’ lobbying database search would provide the definitive annual numbers missing from these excerpts ^[3].

5. Context, caveats and how to interpret the partial picture

The reporting provided repeatedly distinguishes between lobbying expenditures and other political activity such as outside spending and PAC contributions — areas where AIPAC and affiliated pro-Israel committees have separately recorded substantial sums in 2022 — and conflating those categories risks overstating or misattributing totals if one relies only on headlines ^{[6] [2]}. The available excerpts thus yield a firm OpenSecrets-cited figure for 2022 (over $2.7 million) and an older 2018 benchmark ($3.5 million cited via Wikipedia quoting OpenSecrets) but do not provide the exact OpenSecrets-listed federal lobbying totals for 2019, 2020 or 2021 in the supplied material ^{[1] [5] [3]}. To resolve the remaining gaps, consult the AIPAC organization summary and lobbying pages on OpenSecrets directly, or the Senate Office of Public Records’ lobbying disclosures that feed OpenSecrets’ database ^{[3] [4]}.