Point-in-time·Ticker-mapped·AI-ready·History from 1999·Real-time updates
Every lobbying filing since 1999, traced to the company behind it and to the ticker it traded under at the time. Updated in real time.
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Lobbying data from 2026. Click a row to read the full record.
The details data-sourcing teams usually ask for first.
Companies lobby where government decisions affect their profits, and they are required to disclose it, usually before the decision is made.
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What a company spends, and the issues it lobbies on, show which laws and regulations management believes could help or hurt the business. Annual reports rarely spell this out.
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Reports are filed every quarter, usually before the vote, the ruling or the contract award they concern.
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A jump in spending, a new issue or a new lobbying firm often signals a change in priorities before management discusses it on an earnings call.
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Academic studies link lobbying to bills passing, government contract awards, profitability and share prices.
A large body of academic research, much of it based on the same disclosures as this dataset, links lobbying to stock returns, profitability and government contracts.
The monthly margin by which hedge funds with ties to lobbyists beat the market on politically sensitive holdings.
Gao and Huang, Journal of Financial Economics, 2016.
The rise in a bill’s chance of passing for each additional $1m spent lobbying on it.
LobbyingData.com analysis; 2.5M filings, 81,000 bills, 107th–117th Congress.
In government contracts won for every dollar spent on lobbying during the pandemic stimulus.
LobbyingData.com analysis; Heckman selection model, 8,000–24,000 firm-level contracts.
When the Abramoff scandal of 2006 curbed lobbying, the firms that lobbied most lost the most market value. Investors, it seems, had priced lobbying as an asset.
Companies that lobby more tend to report stronger profits and enjoy better market returns.
Shareholders reward lobbying done on their behalf, especially at firms that do not also make campaign donations.
Funds with ties to lobbyists traded more heavily in politically sensitive stocks, and did better on them, until the STOCK Act of 2012 narrowed the gap.
Every company is identified consistently across 27 years of name changes, mergers and subsidiaries, and matched to the ticker it traded under at the time. Every filing is broken into clean, documented fields. The result joins directly to prices and fundamentals.
Facebook became Meta; Paramount merged with Skydance. Each filing keeps the ticker in use at the time, so history is never rewritten with hindsight.
Each report shows the bills and agencies lobbied and, in the filer’s own words, what was at stake, as well as the money spent.
New filings flow into the dataset as they are published, alongside a complete history back to 1999.
Subscribers receive all the data in real time. Each row is one lobbying filing.
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Many investment teams now run data through models and AI agents before an analyst reads it. The dataset is structured to work with both.
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Every field is documented and named the same way across 27 years, so the data can feed a model without first being cleaned.
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Each filing carries the lobbyist’s own account of the issue, with bill titles and agency names: material that language models can sort, search and summarize.
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Every record is stamped with the moment it was published, so a model trained on the past learns nothing it could not have known at the time.
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Files are kept current in your S3 bucket, where your models and agents can read them under your own controls.
The data comes from public disclosures, and every record can be traced to its source. Our full due-diligence questionnaire is available on request.
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