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The dataset
Every lobbying filing since 1999, in a single, consistent format: who paid, how much, to whom, on which bills and agencies, and the ticker each company traded under at the time.
Specification
Coverage, identifiers, timing and delivery.
- Category
- Political and regulatory; event risk
- Source
- Lobbying Disclosure Act registrations and quarterly reports (LD-1, LD-2), enriched with entity resolution, security mapping and parsed bills, issues and agencies
- History
- 1999–present
- Coverage
- All LDA filings: 2M+ filings, 200K+ clients and registrants (public and private), 78K+ lobbyists, 250+ government agencies
- Ticker coverage
- 3,000+ U.S.-listed equities, mapped point-in-time
- Identifiers
- Ticker as of filing year, CIK, persistent client, registrant, lobbyist and filing IDs, source filing URL
- Reporting frequency
- Quarterly LD-2 reports, due 20 days after quarter end; registrations, amendments and terminations as filed
- Refresh
- Every 15 minutes
- Point-in-time
- Posting timestamp on every record; amendments delivered as separate records; filings later removed at source are retained
- AI readiness
- Documented 43-column schema, persistent IDs and free-text issue fields for model features, NLP and LLM retrieval; files land in your S3 environment for direct access by pipelines and agents
- Delivery
- Real time, to subscribers via AWS S3; also listed on AWS Data Exchange
- Format
- CSV, 43 columns, one row per lobbying filing
- Documentation and trial
- Data dictionary, sample files and DDQ on request; 90-day trial
What each record holds
Each row is a single filing. Where a filing lists several bills, lobbyists or foreign interests, they are kept together in the same row, with a count beside them.
| date_posted | client_name | ticker_symbol | registrant_name | dollar_amount | general_issue_codes | bills_lobbied_on | agencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-21 | Bloom Energy | BE | Mcallister & Quinn, Llc | 50000 | BUD, DEF | S. 2572 | Department of Defense (DOD), Senate |
| 2026-04-21 | Verizon Communications Inc And Various Subsidiaries | VZ | Verizon Communications Inc. And Various Subsidiaries | 3400000 | BUD, TAX, TEC | H.R. 2449, H.R. 3562, H.R. 7022, H.R. 2399 | Executive Office of the President (EOP), White House Office, Senate, House of Representatives, Department of Treasury |
| 2026-04-20 | Pfizer | PFE | Resolution Public Affairs, Llc | 60000 | HCR, MMM | H.R. 5509 | Senate, House of Representatives |
| 2026-04-20 | Lockheed Martin Corporation | LMT | Ballard Spahr Llp | 30000 | DEF | Senate, House of Representatives | |
| 2026-04-20 | Claritev (Formerly Multiplan Corporation) | CTEV | Claritev (Formerly Multiplan Corporation) | 160000 | HCR, MMM | H.R. 5582, S. 2355 | Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Senate, House of Representatives |
| 2026-04-20 | Visa, Inc. | V | Crossroads Strategies, Llc | 80000 | FIN, TAX, TRD | H.R. 6644, S. 3623, H.R. 3633, H.R. 7035 | Senate, House of Representatives |
Each row is one lobbying filing. Eight of the 43 columns are shown here; the data dictionary describes them all.
Filing
A link to the original document, its type and the moment it was made public.
filing_urlfiling_uuidfiling_yearfiling_typedate_time_posteddate_postedtermination_date
Client and security
The company or organization paying for the lobbying, identified consistently over time, with its ticker for that year.
client_uuidclient_nameclient_general_descriptionticker_symbolcikclient_ticker_indicatorclient_government_entity
Activity
The money spent, the issues and bills at stake, the agencies approached and the filer’s own description of the matter.
dollar_amountgeneral_issue_codesgeneral_issuesspecific_issuesbills_lobbied_onagencieslobbying_activities_more_info
Registrant and lobbyists
The firm hired to do the work, and each lobbyist named, including any past government posts.
registrant_idregistrant_namelobbyist_uuidslobbyist_nameslobbyist_more_infolobbyist_conviction_disclosures
Affiliates and foreign entities
Parent companies, partners and foreign interests disclosed on the filing, with their country of origin.
affiliated_organizationsforeign_entitiesforeign_entity_issuesforeign_entity_count
Reference tables
Reference tables that translate agency, issue and filing codes into plain names.
AgenciesIssue codesFiling types
How we build the dataset
The steps from raw government filings to the finished dataset.
CollectionEvery new filing is captured as soon as it is published and checked for completeness.
CodingBills are identified by number and title; issues and agencies are coded to the government’s own lists.
Matching companiesA company that files as “Acme Inc” one year and “Acme Holdings” the next is recognized as the same company, as are its subsidiaries.
Matching tickersListed companies are matched to the ticker they used in each year, through renamings, mergers and delistings.
Quality checksThe results are checked against the original filings before release, and each record keeps a link to its source.
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