Lobbying activity
Who is lobbying Congress, for whom, and on what, from federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings at lda.gov. Posted since January 2025 and synced daily. Covers both chambers and the executive agencies that filers name. 191,929 filings
Top spenders & firms Spend by issue Agencies lobbied Political contributions Revolving door Foreign interests Conviction disclosures
What is in a filing
Anyone paid to lobby the federal government files a quarterly report, the LD-2. It names the firm doing the lobbying, the client paying for it, the issue areas worked, the bills and agencies named, and the people who did the work. A second form, the LD-203, discloses the political contributions those same filers made. Nothing on these pages is rewritten: it is the forms, parsed and linked.
What the money means
Income is what a lobbying firm was paid by its client for the quarter. Expenses is what an organization spent lobbying with its own in-house staff. A filing carries one or the other, never both, so "spend" here is the two added together. Most filers round to the nearest $10,000, which the form allows, and a quarter of filings report no figure at all.
What it will not tell you
- The money is one lump sum per quarter. The law does not break it out per issue or per bill, so a filing that worked six issues has its whole figure counted under each of them.
- Firm and client names are free text. We do not merge spelling variants, so one company can appear under several names and its totals are split between them.
- An amendment is a whole new filing that restates the period. Money totals here count only the latest version of each; counts of filings include every document that was actually filed.
- A filing's reporting period can predate the sync window, which is why a few years before 2025 appear in the year filter with only a handful of filings each.
Ways in
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Top spendersClients and firms ranked by reported spend, by year.
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Spend by issueWhat Washington is lobbied on, ranked across the LDA issue areas.79 issue areas in use
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Agencies lobbiedWho lobbied the EPA, Treasury or the White House Office, and about what.219 bodies, named 476,761 times
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ClientsOrganizations that have paid a registered lobbyist, with each one's filing history.24,012 clients
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Lobbying firmsRegistrants, their client rosters and what each was paid.5,869 registrants
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Foreign interestsForeign owners and funders disclosed in section 7 of the LD-2.1,792 disclosures, 84 countries
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Revolving doorFormer members of Congress now registered to lobby it.128 former members
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Political contributionsLD-203 giving, matched to the members of Congress honored by it.411,239 contributions, 266,070 matched to a member
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Conviction disclosuresCriminal convictions a lobbyist must disclose under HLOGA.593 disclosures