Hell, that's just their trade association. Add in the $12.5 million that Comcast spent, $8.2 million from Time Warner, etc. and it now we're talking over $40 million to lobby the folks who are supposed to be watching over these bastards.
The U.S. Telecom Association (the telco equivalent to the NCTA), on the other hand, is a piker at $2.8 million