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AMBER CARTER GOVT RELATIONS LLC

AMBER CARTER GOVT RELATIONS LLC reported $2.5M in lobbying compensation over 2016–2026, from 24 clients.

$2.5M

reported in compensation

Reported by this firm to the Public Disclosure Commission as compensation received for lobbying.

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 39 days old · 2016–2026, money received

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What they were paid, by year

Lobbying is reported monthly and totalled here by calendar year. A year with no row is a year with no reported compensation, not a year we have not read.

Reported lobbying compensation by year
Year Compensation Share of their largest year
2026 $226K
2025 $395K
2024 $327K
2023 $301K
2022 $247K
2021 $240K
2020 $184K
2019 $203K
2018 $177K
2017 $38,751
2016 $143K

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 39 days old · 11 years on record

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Who paid them

Every organisation that this firm named as a source of its compensation. Self-funded filings — the firm reporting its own money — are excluded.

Clients
Client Reported
PORT OF VANCOUVER $455K
PORTLAND VANCOUVER JUNCTION RAILROAD $337K
IDENTITY CLARK CO $267K
Seattle Mariners $212K
COLUMBIA RIVER STEAMSHIP OPERATORS ASSN $185K
MARITIME FIRE & SAFETY ASSN $159K
AMERICAN RECYCLABLE PLASTIC BAG ALLIANCE $156K
Washington Workforce Association $143K
CARRUTHERS CATHERINE A $120K
Novolex (GALLATIN PUBLIC AFFAIRS*) $99,000
WA RETAIL ASSN $63,000
The American Waterways Operators $52,500
AMERICAN RECYCLABLE PLASTIC BAG ALLIANCE (GALLATIN PUBLIC AFFAIRS*) $51,000
Novolex $45,000
Campaign for Recycling and the Environment (GALLATIN PUBLIC AFFAIRS*) $33,000
Coalition for Protein Packaging $22,000
Novolex(GALLATIN PUBLIC AFFAIRS*) $21,000
Maverik, Inc (GALLATIN PUBLIC AFFAIRS*) $14,500
Novolex (contracted through GALLATIN PUBLIC AFFAIRS*) $12,000
Northwest Surf Parks, LLC $10,500
Vancouver Clinic $10,000
Seattle Mariners (RICK L WICKMAN) $8,668
Reich & Tang Networks LLC $5,200
TransparentBusiness, Inc. $3,167
Registered lobbyists
Registered lobbyist Years registered
AMBER CARTER 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Ms. AMBER CARTER 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 39 days old · 24 listed

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Connected records

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On the record · 26

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Showing 8 of 26. Every edge for this record, as JSON

Nothing on file

Bills lobbied on are not in the graph yet — the L-2 bill lines are not loaded. No adjacency observation appears here: no shared address or agent record has been read into an edge for this firm, which is not the same as none existing.

Checked 2026-08-12

Source one query on the edge table, grouped by tier · as of 2026-08-12 · 39 days old · edges 26 filed, 0 composite, 0 adjacency · how edges are built

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What this page will not compute

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What this money bought
Compensation is what was paid, not what was achieved. The record does not connect a payment to a bill, a vote or an outcome, and we will not infer one — a firm retained all session may have lost every argument it made.
Who was lobbied
Washington requires lobbyists to report what they were paid and by whom. It does not require them to report which legislators they spoke to, so nothing here names an officeholder.
Everything this firm earned
This is reported lobbying compensation. Other work the firm does for the same clients is not lobbying and is not reported here.
Whose number this is
Every figure on this page comes from the lobbying firm’s own report naming its funding source. Employers file separately, and the two accounts need not agree. Where they differ we show the firm’s, because that is the filing that itemises by source.

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“AMBER CARTER GOVT RELATIONS LLC,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-09-20. https://washingtonindependents.org/lobbying/amber-carter-govt-relations-llc/

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WA Public Disclosure Commission — lobbyist compensation (L2 reports)
https://www.pdc.wa.gov/political-disclosure-reporting-data/browse-search-data/lobbyists
WA Public Disclosure Commission — lobbyist employment registrations
https://www.pdc.wa.gov/political-disclosure-reporting-data/browse-search-data/lobbyists