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.
Starting today, LegiStorm subscribers will see a "Issues List" option under the Staff tab on congressional member and committee pages. This new page lists the primary staff contact assigned to each legislative issue for the office. Additionally, member pages list the primary caucus contacts for any caucus the member chairs.
With the click of a button, subscribers can build custom lists of issue or caucus-based contacts. Premium subscribers can set up lightning alerts on these lists to get email notifications when the relevant issue assignments are updated.
Prior to today, LegiStorm displayed issues for all staff but not in one easy alphabetical issue list.
Based on user feedback, we made improvements to the chart display in our new premium analytics product. Subscribers will find it even easier to see year over year trends in lobbying, as well as changes over time for individual firms.
These premium lobbying features are available only to our Pro Premium subscribers, including congressional subscribers with the Pro Gov: Office subscription level.
