Who pays Washington.
And who they hire.
Every quarter, lobbying firms report who paid them, how much and for which issues. Bourse matches those reports to listed companies and flags lobbyists who used to work in government.
What you get. In the app.
Quarterly lobbying amounts per company and how they change.
What each company lobbied on: taxes, defense, health, trade, energy and more.
Lobbyists with a “covered position” - former officials and congressional staff - and who they work for now.
Backtests of companies with the fastest-growing lobbying and the most former officials.
How it works. Step by step.
- 1Report filed
Lobbying firms file LD-2 reports with the Senate every quarter.
- 2Matched
Client names are matched to listed companies using SEC data and a list of aliases.
- 3Flagged
Lobbyists who list a former government position are marked as revolving door.
In the data. Ready for your models.
Every record has these fields, in the app and in the Bourse API as JSON or CSV.
$ curl "https://api.bourse.pl/v1/lobbying?limit=3" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $BOURSE_KEY"
# JSON with fields:
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Every member’s stock trades
Cabinet & Fed TradesSecretaries, agency heads, Fed governors and senior White House staff file the same 278-T reports as the President. Bourse reads every report the Office of Government Ethics publishes.
All Datasets43 datasets built from official filings and public sources, cleaned, matched to listed companies and updated around the clock.
Questions. Answered.
Is lobbying a signal for the stock?
Growing lobbying often comes before regulation, contracts or legal fights that matter for the business. The lobbying strategies show how such companies performed historically.
What is a covered position?
A senior job in Congress or the executive branch that a lobbyist must disclose for 20 years after leaving it.
Follow the money the day it is filed.
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