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Today, LegiStorm published the second quarter (April 1 to June 30) House of Representatives salary and expense records. As always our team has extensively cleaned and processed the official data released by the Clerk of the House to make sure we provide the most useful and accurate information. These latest salary and expense records (including the original PDF pages) are now available for browsing on member, office or staffer profiles. 

As always, this data is available in a variety of tools for our Pro-Lite, Pro and Pro Premium subscribers, including our Official Expenses search comparing different members' budgets and spending, our Expenses full-text search and our Top Vendors list and search.

The second quarter salary data will be added to our salary analytics and turnover tools shortly.

The official Congressional Record search is based on the full list of members who spoke at any time in a section - so search results for "Nancy Pelosi" and "infrastructure" might include numerous items where she made procedural statements without saying anything about the subject at hand.

The LegiStorm Congressional Record search takes a more useful approach - for all substantive member remarks, we match one specific member to the exact paragraphs during which they are speaking. In our search, results for "Nancy Pelosi" and "infrastructure" will only include items where she specifically has something to say on the issue.

LegiStorm Lightning Alerts - custom notifications about updates important to you - are available as part of our Congressional Record search. Subscribers can create Lightning Alerts to get instant email notifications based on comments made by a particular list of members (Democrats, Republicans, members from California or New York, a hand-selected list, etc.) about the issues they care about most. Both the Congressional Record search and Lightning Alerts are available only to Pro Premium subscribers.

Today LegiStorm updated our Privately Funded Congressional Travel Search to add a custom member list search filter. The travel disclosure database lets subscribers see which members and staffers have accepted free travel, including the details of when, where, why, how much it cost and what private organization paid for it all.

This is the latest expansion of our custom member list functionality, which provides powerful targeted search capabilities and Lightning Alert notifications throughout the LegiStorm site, including the Advanced Staff Search, StormFeed press releases and tweets, Town Halls and many other data sets. Subscribers can easily create and save lists of current senators and representatives based on geography, education, committee or caucus membership, political party, or any combination of these criteria. To learn more about creating and using member lists, see About Member, Staff and State Legislator Lists.

The Secretary of the Senate recently released the salary records for the first half of FY2022 (Oct. 1, 2021, to March 31, 2022) a couple of weeks after the publication deadline.

The LegiStorm team processed the records, extensively cleaning and editing the data to create an accurate salary history for individual staffers. The second half of the 2022 Senate fiscal year data is expected at the end of November.

These latest salary and expense records (including the original PDF pages) are now available for browsing on member, office or staffer profiles. And they were added to a variety of tools for our Pro-Lite, Pro and Pro Premium subscribers, including our Official Expenses search comparing different members' budgets and spending, our Expenses full-text search and our Top Vendors list and search.

The first quarter salary data will be added to our salary analytics and turnover tools shortly.

The Senate has not yet published their salary and expense records for the first half of Fiscal Year 2022, despite it being several days past the government-mandated deadline. We will process and publish the Senate data as soon as it is available.

Today we added a new Congressional Publications module to the site, available for LegiStorm subscribers. This feature includes full-text search of committee prints, congressional documents and congressional reports from 1995 to today. These reports, published by Congress or its committees, provide research and background information on proposed legislation, executive departments, special investigations and a wide variety of other topics.

These reports supplement a variety of documents we already have, including Congressional Research Service reports, Government Accountability Office reports, Congressional Budget Office cost analyses and Statements of Administration Policy from the Office of Management and Budget.

LegiStorm has processed and published the latest salary records released for Senate congressional staffers, based on the months-delayed Report of the Secretary of the Senate covering the period from April 1 to Sept. 30, 2021.

Prior to publishing this dataset, our content team extensively cleaned and edited the data, making it easy to use and ensuring subscribers can see a complete and accurate salary history for individual staffers. Also included are member, leadership, committee and administrative offices salary data.

The salary release for the House Q1 2022 data and for the first half of the 2022 Senate fiscal year is expected at the end of this month.

As part of an ongoing series of updates shedding light on lobbying activities and the revolving door, we just launched a new search interface for filings related to the Foreign Agent Registration Act. FARA requires certain people and individuals engaged in political activities on behalf of a foreign entity to disclose the relationship and periodically report on activities and disbursements.

While LegiStorm has long provided this information as part of our biographical and organization profiles, for the first time subscribers can search our full database of FARA filings going back to the 1950s. Filings can be searched by registrant, client, lobbyist and date. Full-text search is available for more recent filings with extractable text.

Today LegiStorm launched two new congressional staffer search pages for our subscribers.  The Issue Staff Search allows quick and easy searching and list-building based on issue assignments and/or primary caucus contacts in member personal offices. The Role Staff Search similarly lets subscribers quickly pull lists of chiefs of staff, press secretaries, or other staff filling key office roles. Search results can be added to a contact list for download with the click of a button.

As with all of our search-based staff contact lists, Pro Premium subscribers can create Lightning Alerts to get email notifications when one of their saved lists changes - for example, if an office replaces their legislative director or a new staffer is assigned to cover Energy issues.

We added these new search pages based on the feedback of customers who asked for a simple way to quickly build their most common contact lists. For subscribers looking to build more complex searches across member, committee, leadership and/or administrative staff, our powerful Advanced Search continues to offer a wide range of search filters based on position, location, education, and other criteria.