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.

Example output

{
  "recordType": "contribution",
  "filingUuid": "082b5ec0-e293-4bbe-9ee0-62ce64171941",
  "filingType": "Mid-Year Report",
  "year": 2025,
  "period": "Mid-Year (Jan 1 - Jun 30)",
  "postedAt": "2025-01-09T12:23:17-05:00",
  "registrant": "FDD ACTION",
  "lobbyist": "CONNOR PFEIFFER",
  "noContributions": true,
  "contributions": [],
  "pacs": [],
  "documentUrl": "https://lda.gov/filings/public/contribution/082b5ec0-e293-4bbe-9ee0-62ce64171941/print/",
  "url": "https://lda.gov/api/v1/contributions/082b5ec0-e293-4bbe-9ee0-62ce64171941/"
}

FAQ

Does Lobbying Monitor need a login or API key? No — every row comes from public endpoints. Provide a proxy only if your network is heavily rate-limited.

How do I monitor on a schedule? Attach the actor to an Apify Schedule (daily/weekly) and use the watch/monitor mode if present — each run emits a fresh, diff-able dataset.

What does each row contain? See the output fields table above; every row carries a scrapedAt timestamp so datasets can be deduped across runs.

Is it legal to scrape this data? The actor only accesses publicly available data — the same pages/APIs a browser sees. Scraping public data for research, monitoring, and analysis is common practice, but platform Terms of Service and the rules in your jurisdiction still apply to how you use it. Consult legal counsel for your specific case.

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