Follow the Money
Follow the money in politics in real-time with our unique Daily Lobbying Data offering, which provides a daily view into who is lobbying, how much they spend on it, the government agencies they contact, and the exact legislation & specific issues they lobby on.
Intelligently Designed & Curated Data Quality
Historical Data
Our Historical (1999-2022) Lobbying Data package is targeted towards academics, journalists, and civic activists and includes a set of datasets, each corresponding with their respective year and spanning 360+ features. Please download the data dictionary below for a more detailed explanation.
Daily Data
Our Daily Data Subscription package is targeted towards financial institutions and is built in the same way as the historical data, but is regenerated every day to account for the latest lobbying contracts and sent to your inbox with a series of informative data tables every morning.
Lobbying Issues
Each lobbying record is associated with at least one of 78 issue areas. Our data design allows you to easily filter each record by any issue of your choosing; perfect for regressions. If listed, easily learn which firms lobby on exact bills posited by congress.
The Lobbyists
Filtering & Sorting
View the exact price paid for lobbying services and filter across groups with ease! We match every lobbyist name, lobbying firm, and lobbying client throughout 1999-2022 to standardize them, allowing for you to truly follow the money across time.
Government Agencies
Find out who is pulling the strings.
From complex, unstructured government datasets to intuitive highly adaptable insights.
Each year since 2008 has seen over 3 billion dollars spent on lobbying, with each crisis continually adding more and more salience to its impact on public policy and government procurement and budget.
Our datasets & daily reports are a treasure trove for academics, journalists, financial professionals, and civic activists alike.