BEHIND THE NAME
Cox Communications Inc. is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises. Cox Communications had an estimated 4.2 million broadband subscribers as of the third quarter of 2009. Lobbying expenses from 1999 to 2009 totaled at least $21.6 million.

Sources: Leichtman Research Group, Inc. (broadband subscribers); lobbying disclosure forms with the Senate Office of Public Records (lobbying data).

Graphic research by Mia Steinle, Investigative Reporting Workshop