Official Websites
United States Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act Databases – databases created under requirements of the Secretary of the Senate to make all documents filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, as amended, available to the public. Note that the downloadable lobbying documents include all documents received during a given calendar quarter. The lobbying documents database includes the lobbying registrations (LD-1) and reports (LD-2). The contributions database is limited to the documents filed under section 203 of HLOGA (LD-203), the first of which is required to be filed by registrants and lobbyists by July 30, 2008.
Specialized Resources
Descriptions of resources are adapted or quoted from vendor websites and from Jeremy Darrington's American Politics Research Guide, Princeton University Libraries.
Type of Resource | ProQuest Congressional | Congressional Serial Set | GovInfo | Thomas (Library of Congress) |
Hearings | 1824-present | None | 1995-present | None |
Full-Text Hearings | 1824-2004 | None | 1995-present | None |
Reports and Documents | 1970-present | 1817-1994 | 1995-present | 1995-present |
Full-Text Reports and Documents | None | 1817-1994 | 1995-present | 1995-present |
Committee Prints* | 1830-present [full-text] | None | 1995-present [full-text] | None |
CRS Reports | 1916-present | None | None | None |
Bills and Resolutions | 1989-present [full-text] | None | 1993-present [full-text] | 1973-present [full-text] |
Public Laws | 1988-present [full-text] | None | 1995-present [full-text] | 1973-present [full-text] |
Statuts-at-Large | 1776-present [full-text | None | 1951-2007 [full-text] | None |
U.S. Code | Most Recent Only | None | 1994-present [full-text] | None |
*Note that, when searching for Committee Prints in GovInfo, search under Hearings.
Listed below are resources that support research about the relationship between money and politics. See also the official lobbying disclosure systems for the House and Senate in the adjacent text box.
Descriptions of resources are adapted or quoted from vendor websites and from Jeremy Darrington's American Politics Research Guide, Princeton University Libraries.