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Lobbying and contracts
Companies report their lobbying to Congress every quarter (Lobbying Disclosure Act), and the government publishes every federal contract award of $1 million or more on USAspending.gov. This page puts the two public records for the same company next to each other, with the corporate PAC gifts reported to the FEC.
- Where it comes from
Built from three public records we already collect: lobbying reports filed with the Senate under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, federal contract awards published on USAspending.gov, and corporate PAC gifts reported to the FEC. Each report and each award is counted once, and agency names are matched to one department name. The two figures are shown side by side and are not combined.
Who reports it: Lobbying: the company or the firm it hired, on the quarterly LD-2 report. Contracts: the agency that made the award. PAC gifts: the company's PAC, on its FEC reports.
Official sources
- How often we update it
- Every day
- Last updated
- (8 hours ago)
- Coverage
- The last six calendar years and the current year to date. Contract awards of $1 million or more.
- Worth knowing
- Lobbying and contract awards are reported separately; showing them together does not mean one caused the other. Matching a lobbying client or a contract recipient to a listed company is automatic and can miss subsidiaries or attach a name wrongly.
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