US Lobbying Disclosure Scraper - Firms, Clients & Lobbyists

Every organisation that lobbies the US Congress or the executive branch has to disclose it. Those disclosures name the lobbying firm, the client paying it, the exact fee, every individual lobbyist, the government job each lobbyist used to hold, the bills and issues worked, the agencies contacted, and any foreign interest standing behind the client.

This actor turns that public record into a clean, filterable dataset, and it also covers the separate reports where lobbyists and firms disclose their political contributions.

What you get

Lobbying reports

The lobbying firm (lead-grade contact data)

• Firm name, its own description of its business, and registration identifiers
• Full street address, city, state, ZIP and country
• Named contact person and their direct telephone number
• Flag for in-house lobbying, so you can separate outside firms from companies lobbying for themselves

The client paying for it

• Client name and what the organisation does
• State, country, and principal place of business
• Whether the client is a state or local government body
• Date the engagement took effect, and the termination date when it ends

The money

• Fees the firm received for the client, in USD
• Expenses reported by organisations lobbying for themselves
• A single amountReported figure so you can sort and filter without branching

The people, including the revolving door

• Every named lobbyist on the report
• The government position each one previously held, for example "Staff Director, Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee" or "Deputy Chief of Staff to Rep. Carol Miller"
• A ready-made revolvingDoorLobbyists list plus counts, so ex-government hires are one filter away
• Whether each lobbyist is new to the engagement

What was lobbied, and whom

• General issue codes and issue areas (Defense, Taxation, Health, Trade, and more)
• The specific bills, programmes and policy issues described in the filer's own words
• Chambers, departments and agencies contacted, for example U.S. Senate, Dept of Defense

Ownership and disclosure flags

• Foreign governments, companies and interests behind the client, with country, ownership percentage and contribution amount
• Affiliated organisations that fund or direct the lobbying
• Criminal convictions disclosed for named lobbyists
• Direct link to the original report

Political contribution reports

• Filer type, the lobbyist or firm the report belongs to, and their contact details
• Every itemised donation: contributor, payee, honoree, amount and date
• Total donated across the report and the number of entries
• Connected political action committees
• A flag for the many "no contributions to report" filings, so you can skip them

Filters that do the work for you

• Years covered, back to 1999, and reporting period (quarter, mid-year, year-end)
• Report type: new registrations, quarterly reports, amendments, terminations
• Client name and lobbying firm name
• Lobbyist name
• Former government position contains, for example Senator, Chief of Staff, Department of Defense
• Issue text contains, for example artificial intelligence, tariffs, Medicare reimbursement
• Client state, client country and firm country
• Minimum reported amount, to isolate the big-money engagements
• Posted on or after / before
• Only reports with ex-government lobbyists
• Only reports naming a foreign entity
• Only reports with a contact phone number
• Exclude in-house lobbying, keeping outside firms and their clients
• Contribution reports: skip filings with no donations

What people use it for

• Sales prospecting - lobbying firms and their contact phone numbers, or newly registered clients with a Washington budget
• Policy and competitive intelligence - who is lobbying on your issue, for which client, at what fee, and which agencies they are hitting
• Revolving-door research - former officials now lobbying, and the offices they came from
• Foreign influence tracking - foreign governments and corporations disclosed behind US lobbying campaigns
• Journalism and watchdog work - money flows, contribution patterns and conviction disclosures
• Compliance and diligence - screen a counterparty's lobbying footprint and political giving
• Recruiting - identify practising lobbyists by issue area and former government post

Example input

Find outside firms working artificial-intelligence policy with former government staff on the team:

{
  "dataset": "filings",
  "filingYears": ["2026"],
  "issueText": "artificial intelligence",
  "onlyRevolvingDoor": true,
  "excludeInHouse": true,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Track big-money engagements with a reachable contact:

{
  "dataset": "filings",
  "filingYears": ["2025"],
  "filingType": "Q3",
  "minAmount": 500000,
  "onlyWithContactPhone": true,
  "maxResults": 200
}

Surface foreign-backed lobbying:

{
  "dataset": "filings",
  "filingYears": ["2025"],
  "clientCountry": "JP",
  "onlyWithForeignEntities": true,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Pull political contributions:

{
  "dataset": "contributions",
  "filingYears": ["2025"],
  "onlyWithContributions": true,
  "maxResults": 200
}

Example output (trimmed)

{
  "recordType": "lobbying_report",
  "filingType": "1st Quarter - Report",
  "filingYear": 2026,
  "filingPeriod": "1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31)",
  "amountReported": 500000,
  "income": 500000,
  "registrantName": "THE WASHINGTON TAX & PUBLIC POLICY GROUP",
  "registrantAddress": "505 9th Street NW, Suite 830",
  "registrantCity": "Washington",
  "registrantState": "DC",
  "registrantZip": "20004",
  "registrantContactName": "GREGORY NICKERSON",
  "registrantContactPhone": "+1 202-534-4949",
  "isInHouseLobbying": false,
  "clientName": "ALLIANCE FOR BIOPHARMACEUTICAL COMPETITIVENESS AND INNOVATION",
  "clientDescription": "Biopharmaceutical industry",
  "clientState": "DC",
  "clientEffectiveDate": "2016-01-12",
  "lobbyistCount": 3,
  "revolvingDoorCount": 3,
  "revolvingDoorLobbyists": [
    {
      "name": "GREGORY NICKERSON",
      "formerGovernmentPosition": "Tax Counsel, Ways and Means Committee; Staff Director, Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee"
    },
    {
      "name": "ZACHARY AUSTIN PRICE",
      "formerGovernmentPosition": "Staff Assistant to Sen. Coats"
    }
  ],
  "issueCodes": ["TAX"],
  "issueAreas": ["Taxation/Internal Revenue Code"],
  "issueDescriptions": ["Issues related to tax treatment of biopharmaceutical research"],
  "governmentEntities": ["SENATE", "HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES"],
  "hasForeignEntity": false,
  "sourceUrl": "https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/f85b5557-dc26-4b1e-b877-0e174629fd7d/print/"
}

A foreign-entity disclosure looks like this:

{
  "clientName": "YAZAKI NORTH AMERICA",
  "hasForeignEntity": true,
  "foreignEntities": [
    {
      "name": "YAZAKI CORPORATION",
      "country": "JP",
      "countryName": "Japan",
      "city": "Shizuoka",
      "ownershipPercentage": 100,
      "contributionAmount": 0
    }
  ]
}

Notes

• Public regulatory disclosures only. Read-only, no account or credentials needed.
• Filers type their reports into a web form, so the raw text arrives escaped and sometimes double-encoded. Every text field is repaired before it reaches you, so names and descriptions come out as clean readable text.
• New registrations report no fee and usually no agency list, which is normal for that report type. Quarterly reports carry the money and the agencies contacted.
• Amounts are reported by the filer in USD bands or exact figures as filed; amountReported is null when the report type does not require one.
• You are charged per disclosure returned. Failed runs return no billable results.
• Free Apify plans are capped at 10 results per run.

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This actor is an independent tool with no affiliation to the US Congress or any government body. It only accesses disclosures that are published for the public record.