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Users can get much greater insight into the lobbying activity by corporations, unions, lobbying firms and other lobbying registrants. Registrants under the Lobbying Disclosure Act are required to file quarterly activity reports, as well as new client registrations and terminations.
The newest LegiStorm features provide insight about how a registrant's activity changes over time, in terms of dollars spent, clients engaged, lobbyists employed and issues lobbied. We show the known party break-down of the lobbyists based on their congressional histories and largest clients served.
A filing search feature allows users to find all lobbying filings by client, issues, specific issues, report type or date.
These premium lobbying features are available only to our Pro Premium subscribers, including congressional subscribers with the Pro Gov: Office subscription level.
We have additional lobbying-related and other features we plan to launch over the coming months.
LegiStorm has processed and published the latest salary records for staffers in the House of Representatives that were released by the Clerk of the House. LegiStorm has cleaned and extensively edited the data, which covers the period from October 1 to December 31, before publishing the salary information online.
This data was also added to a variety of tools that allow subscribers to explore in-depth data and trends in House member expenditures and vendors; salary analysis by position, office and education; and turnover in Member offices.
While we previously allowed searches of congressional expenses, now LegiStorm allows precise tallying of expenditures to individual vendors and detailed categorization of expenditures by office.
Which direct mailing firms do the most business with member offices? Which vendor receives the largest payments from your favorite member of Congress? Questions like these can now be answered with LegiStorm's new vendor searching.
LegiStorm has processed and published the latest data and analytics on staff salaries and official expenditures for members, committees, leadership and administrative offices of the House of Representatives, covering the period from July 1 to September 30. LegiStorm staff extensively clean and edit salary and expenditure records before making the information available online in our searchable salary database and expenditure reporting tools.
The next release of House salaries is expected in late February for the House (which releases data quarterly).
The deadline for the Senate to publish its semi-annual report covering April 1 to September 30 was on November 29. However, the Secretary of the Senate states that the report is delayed and will be published as soon as possible. LegiStorm will continue to monitor and will publish this data as soon as it is available.
The vast majority of financial disclosures are now filed electronically so that searching is possible. You can search the contents such as for stock ticker symbols or company names and filter results by member, chamber, state, party, report type and date.
Financial disclosures have been the subject of intense public interest in recent years. Media reports have focused on potential conflicts of interest as well as members not disclosing transactions in a timely way. Some investors have even started using transaction reports as an opportunity to invest in the same stocks that members hold.
This second-quarter data was also added to our expenses reporting tool. This tools allows subscribers to quickly analyze official expenditures by members of the House of Representatives. The Expense Summaries page lets you analyze summary data related to member representational allowance budgets and spending by member, party, state, year and spending category.
LegiStorm subscribers can drill down to see any particular member's expenditure trends across time, and in comparison to the House average.
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 adminitrative offices salary data.
The House releases salary data quarterly. The Senate releases salary data semi-annually.
This week, LegiStorm added the newly released third-quarter data to our expenses reporting tool. This tools allows subscribers to quickly analyze official expenditures by members of the House of Representatives. The Expense Summaries page lets you analyze summary data related to member representational allowance budgets and spending by member, party, state, year and spending category.
LegiStorm subscribers can drill down to see any particular member's expenditure trends across time, and in comparison to the House average.
For more information about the enhanced expense data, please see About Expenses.
