Lobbying Monitor

Track federal lobbying disclosures from the official Senate Office of Public Records database (lda.gov) — who lobbies whom, on which issues, for how much. No PACER-style fees, no login, no API key.

Built for monitoring: watch a client company, lobbying firm or lobbyist and pull only filings posted since your last run.

Modes

Mode	What it returns
Monitor filings	New lobbying filings — registrations, quarterly reports (Q1–Q4), amendments, terminations. Client, lobbying firm, income/expenses, issues, lobbyists, covered positions, filing PDF
Search clients	Organizations that hire lobbyists — name, description, state/country, their lobbying firm, effective date
Search lobbying firms	Registrant firms — contact info, address, description, house registrant ID
Search lobbyists	Individual lobbyists — name, current firm
Contribution reports	LDA §203 filings — political contributions by lobbyists/firms: payee, honoree, amount, date

Example inputs

Watch a company's lobbying activity — schedule daily/weekly, get only new filings:

{ "mode": "filings", "query": "Microsoft", "postedAfter": "2026-09-01" }

A lobbying firm's full client activity:

{ "mode": "filings", "registrant": "Akin Gump", "year": 2026 }

Q3 filings only:

{ "mode": "filings", "query": "Pfizer", "filingType": "Q3", "year": 2026 }

Track lobbyist political contributions:

{ "mode": "contributions", "query": "Smith", "year": 2025 }

Output fields

• Filings: client, registrant, filingType, year, period, income, expenses, issues, issueDescriptions, lobbyists, coveredPositions (revolving-door government roles), governmentEntities, postedAt, documentUrl
• Clients: name, description, state, country, registrant, effectiveDate
• Registrants: name, description, contactName, contactTelephone, address, country
• Lobbyists: name, registrant
• Contributions: registrant, lobbyist, period, contributions[] (payee, honoree, amount, date, type), documentUrl

Who uses this

• Public affairs / government relations — monitor competitor clients and firm rosters
• Hedge funds / research — lobbying spend shifts signal regulatory risk and priorities
• Journalists — new registrations and revolving-door appointments break stories
• Corporate strategy — see which issues peers are lobbying and which firms they hire
• Nonprofits / advocacy — track industry lobbying on your issue area

Scheduling

Filings post continuously (quarterly deadlines plus registrations/amendments year-round). Set an Apify schedule with postedAfter = last run date to emit only new filings — the classic alerting pattern.

Honest notes

• Data is the official Senate LDA database — authoritative and complete for federal lobbying under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. State/local lobbying is out of scope.
• income/expenses appear on quarterly reports; registration filings report issues and lobbyists instead of dollar amounts.
• coveredPositions reveals lobbyists' prior government jobs — the revolving-door signal.
• Contribution reports: most filers attest "no contributions" (required filing regardless); rows with contributions[] populated are the ones with actual payments.

Pricing

Pay per result — $1.00 per 1,000 rows, scaling down to $0.40 per 1,000 at volume tiers. No per-run fee. Free Apify plan covers ~5,000 rows/month.