Gov Relations

A lobbying firm's current clients with the latest reported fee for each, its lobbying income by quarter, its main issues and its lobbyists. Accepts a Gov Relations slug or a name.

get_firm

A registered federal lobbyist: current firm, clients in the past year, main issues, and the government positions they disclosed (the revolving door). Accepts a Gov Relations slug or a name.

get_lobbyist

The newest federal lobbying disclosures as they post to lda.gov: new registrations (a firm hired by a new client), terminations, quarterly reports and amendments, with client, firm, amount, issues and lobbyists. Optionally filter by kind, issue code or a name.

latest_filings

An industry's federal lobbying over the past 12 months: the organizations in it that spent the most, their combined spending, and the lobbying firms with the most clients in it. Call with no industry to list the industries available.

industry_lobbying

Registered federal lobbyists who disclosed working for a given government office: a member of Congress, a committee, a chamber, the White House or an agency (the revolving door). Ranked by recent lobbying activity, with each person's current firm and the matching former positions. Optionally narrow to lobbyists active on one issue.

revolving_door

For one quarter: total disclosed federal lobbying spending, the top lobbying firms by income, the top spenders, and the busiest issues, with the change from a year earlier. Defaults to the latest quarter whose reports are due.

quarter_rankings

Find registered federal lobbyists, lobbying firms, clients (organizations that hire lobbyists), issues, agencies and bills by name. Returns matches with their Gov Relations page. Use it first to turn a name into a slug for get_firm, get_client or get_lobbyist.

search_lobbying

Lobbying at the state level, from state lobbyist registration records. With a state only: how many lobbyists and clients it has and the busiest clients and firms. With a state and a name: the matching clients, firms and lobbyists in that state and who lobbies for whom, with pay where the state discloses it. With a name only: the states where an organization has registered lobbyists. Coverage grows as more states are added; the result lists the states available.

state_lobbying

The lobbying firms and the organizations that reported lobbying a given federal agency or chamber in the past 12 months, ranked by the number of reports naming it, with each organization's past-year lobbying spending. E.g. FDA, EPA, Department of Defense, Treasury, FCC, the White House, the Senate.

who_lobbies_agency

An organization's federal lobbying: the firms it hires and what it pays them, its most recent quarterly spending and past-year total, the issues it lobbies on and the lobbyists on its account. Accepts a Gov Relations slug or a name.

get_client