Washington Money - Contracts, Lobbying & Congress per Stock

How much does the government pay this company, how much does it spend lobbying, and which members of Congress trade its stock? One row per ticker, from official sources.

Data	USAspending.gov, Senate LDA lobbying filings, STOCK Act disclosures
Price	$20 per 1,000 companies, no subscription. Apify's free plan credit covers a first test.
Freshness	Latest federal data on every run
Try it	The input is pre-filled with a working example: just click Start.

Example output

Ticker	Federal contracts (12m)	Lobbying (12m)	Congress trades	Oversight conflict
XYZ	$48.1B	$13.2M	14	Yes
ABC	$2.3M	$480k	2	No

Illustrative rows; real runs return the full fields listed under Output.

Defense primes, drugmakers and chip designers live and die by Washington. This Actor puts the three money flows side by side: federal contract awards from USAspending.gov, lobbying spend, issues and firms from the Lobbying Disclosure Act database, and Congress trades in the stock, each flagged when the member sits on a committee that oversees the company's sector.

What you can do with it

• 🏛️ Political exposure screen: which holdings depend on federal contracts, and from which agencies.
• 🔎 Conflict-of-interest research: members of Armed Services trading defense contractors, Energy and Commerce members trading drugmakers.
• 💼 Lobbying intelligence: what a company lobbies on, which agencies it targets, which firms it hires and what it spends.
• 📰 Journalism & newsletters: "Top contractors traded by Congress this quarter", with the filings.
• 🤖 AI agents: "How exposed is RTX to government spending, and who in Congress owns it?" as one tool call.

What's in each row

Block	Fields	Source
Contracts	contractAwards, contractValueUsd, topAgencies, largestContracts (with USAspending links)	USAspending.gov
Lobbying	lobbyingSpendUsd, lobbyingReports, lobbyingIssues, lobbiedEntities, lobbyingFirms, latestLobbyingReportUrl	LDA (lda.gov)
Congress	congressTrades, congressBuys, congressSells, politicians, tradesByOverseeingMembers, congressTradeDetails	Senate eFD, House Clerk, congress-legislators
Flags	politiciansTradedContractor, politiciansTradedLobbyingClient	combined

How to use it

Defense primes

{ "tickers": ["LMT", "RTX", "NOC", "GD", "LHX"], "extraNames": ["LMT=Sikorsky", "RTX=Pratt & Whitney", "RTX=Raytheon"] }

Contracts and lobbying only (fast, no Congress)

{ "tickers": ["PFE", "MRNA", "JNJ"], "includeCongress": false, "lobbyingYears": 3 }

Output

One row per company. Example (illustrative values):

{
  "ticker": "LMT",
  "companyName": "LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP",
  "matchedNames": ["lockheed martin", "sikorsky"],
  "contractAwards": 200,
  "contractValueUsd": 41200000000,
  "topAgencies": [{ "agency": "Department of Defense", "amountUsd": 38900000000 }, { "agency": "NASA", "amountUsd": 1400000000 }],
  "largestContracts": [{ "awardId": "N0001924C0001", "recipientName": "LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION", "amountUsd": 7800000000, "agency": "Department of Defense", "url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/…" }],
  "lobbyingSpendUsd": 13100000,
  "lobbyingReports": 14,
  "lobbyingIssues": [{ "issue": "Defense", "reportsMentioning": 12 }, { "issue": "Aerospace", "reportsMentioning": 9 }],
  "lobbyingFirms": [{ "name": "LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION", "spendUsd": 12400000 }],
  "congressTrades": 3,
  "politicians": ["Alex Senator"],
  "tradesByOverseeingMembers": 1,
  "politiciansTradedContractor": true,
  "congressTradeDetails": [{ "politician": "Alex Senator", "chamber": "Senate", "transactionType": "Purchase", "amountRange": "$15,001 - $50,000", "committeeOversight": true, "oversightCommittees": ["Senate Committee on Armed Services"] }]
}

Use it from code or an AI agent

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("smartmoney-data/washington-money-contracts-lobbying").call(run_input={"tickers": ["LMT", "RTX"]})
for c in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(c["ticker"], c["contractValueUsd"], c["lobbyingSpendUsd"], c["politicians"])

AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients): connect the Apify MCP server with this Actor preloaded:

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=smartmoney-data/washington-money-contracts-lobbying

Add this URL as a remote MCP server or custom connector in your AI client, sign in with Apify (OAuth), then just ask, for example:

Which defense companies won the most federal contracts and spent the most on lobbying?

Part of the SmartMoney Data suite: Insider Trades · Hedge Fund 13F Holdings · Congress Stock Trades · Form 144 Planned Sales · 13D/13G Activist Stakes · 8-K Material Events · Smart Money Confluence · Smart Money Alerts · Short Squeeze Radar · 13F Consensus

Pricing

Pay per company: you're charged for each company profile returned, however many contracts, reports and trades went into it. See the Pricing tab for current rates.

FAQ

How are companies matched to contract recipients and lobbying clients? By name, conservatively: a recipient counts when its name, without legal suffixes, equals the company's or starts with a multi-word company name ("Lockheed Martin Aeronautics"). One-word names must match exactly, so "Apple" never picks up "Apple Hospitality REIT". Subsidiaries with their own names (Sikorsky, Pratt & Whitney) need extraNames.

What does contractValueUsd measure? The total value of the contract awards with activity in the window, largest first, up to maxAwardsPerTicker. When more awards exist, contractsTruncated is true.

Why is lobbying slow for long watchlists? The lobbying API allows 15 requests a minute without a key. A free key from lda.gov raises that to 120. Paste it in ldaApiKey.

How is committee overlap decided? Each committee is mapped to the sectors in its jurisdiction, and the company's sector comes from its SEC SIC code. See the Congress Stock Trades Tracker for details. Committee assignments are current.

Is this legal to use? Yes. Every source is public data published by the US government.

Related Actors

• 🏛️ Congress Stock Trades Tracker: every disclosed trade, with committee oversight flags.
• 🔔 Smart Money Alerts: get pinged when a member of Congress trades your stocks.
• 🧭 Smart Money Confluence Score: insiders, activists and Congress in one score.

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