Evidence-backed findings

A civic intelligence atlas

See who is trying to shape U.S. federal policy.

Gov Influence analyzes selected lobbying, legislation, political finance, and federal spending records to reveal patterns and connections—with evidence behind every finding.

Four groups of public records arranged on a research table with a civic building in the distance.

Latest analytical update

See how a finding connects across records

Follow a reviewed defense-policy pattern from organization and firm filings to issue, bill, and public-office context, with each relationship kept separate.

Read what the records reveal

Choose a question

Explore by what you want to understand

Start with an analytical question. The underlying directories and source records remain available as the verification layer.

Explore the findings

Start with published conclusions, then open their reasoning, confidence, and evidence.

Explore the findings

Follow an issue through Washington

Move from recurring filing subjects to the organizations, firms, bills, and records connected to them.

Follow an issue through Washington

How the evidence fits together

Follow a connection without blending the records

Gov Influence labels each source system so you can see what a lobbying filing says, then inspect separate bill, office, political-finance, or award context when a reviewed link exists.

Lobbying disclosure

Who reports activity

Filings can identify clients, firms, lobbyists, issues, amounts, and reporting periods.

Legislative record

What Congress considered

Official bill records provide sponsors, committees, actions, subjects, and status.

Political-finance record

Separate aggregate context

Reviewed political-committee totals remain distinct from lobbying expenditures.

Federal award

Separate spending context

Reviewed award records can show agencies, recipients, obligations, contracts, and grants.

Verification and research

Site calculation

Research the underlying collection

Use the 73 published directory pages to inspect records behind the findings. Lobbying coverage spans 2026 Q1 through 2026 Q2; public-role and bill records carry their own effective or update dates.

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Issues

Follow plain-language groups of official lobbying categories.

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People

Read dated public-office and selected legislative records.

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Bills

Open selected Congress.gov records.

Period: 2026 Q1 through 2026 Q2Retrieved: Sep 5, 2026Reviewed: Sep 5, 2026

Sources and method

A selected collection you can inspect

Gov Influence begins with selected organizations, firms, issues, officials, bills, and federal records chosen to demonstrate how public influence data can be connected and analyzed. Future editions can add more entities, periods, record types, and relationships while preserving the same source and review standards.

How this was prepared and where the records come from

Homepage findings come only from approved, published analysis claims grounded in reviewed project records. The lobbying period is 2026 Q1 through 2026 Q2; other record types retain their own dates and evidence boundaries.

  • Lobbying topics and amounts come from reviewed Lobbying Disclosure Act filings available through LDA.gov.
  • Bills and congressional roles use Congress.gov and official government records.
  • Political-finance and federal-award context stays separate and uses reviewed FEC and USAspending.gov records.
  • Only approved identity matches and contextual links are published; timing or shared subject matter is not enough.