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Raw lobbying disclosure filings from the Senate Office of Public Records (SOPR). Each row is a single filing — registrations, quarterly reports, amendments, and terminations. Includes registrant and client names, reported income/expenses, filing period, and the full raw JSON from the API.

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"name": "SENATE"}, {"id": 40, "name": "Transportation, Dept of (DOT)"}, {"id": 212, "name": "U.S. Forest Service"}]}, {"general_issue_code": "TRA", "general_issue_code_display": "Transportation", "description": "Issues relating to emergency response to hazardous materials incidents, including funding for the Assistance for Local Emergency Response Training (ALERT) grant program at the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration in S. 1655, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.", "foreign_entity_issues": "", "lobbyists": [{"lobbyist": {"id": 56654, "prefix": null, "prefix_display": null, "first_name": "JIM", "nickname": null, "middle_name": null, "last_name": "GOLDSTEIN", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": null, "new": false}], "government_entities": [{"id": 23, "name": "Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)"}, {"id": 134, "name": "Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)"}, {"id": 136, "name": 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2017, provisions to reauthorize the Assistance to Firefighters (AFG) and Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response (SAFER) grant programs through FY 2023.\n\nH.R. 2548, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Reauthorization Act, provisions to authorize funding for FEMA through FY 2020, authorize funding for the Center for Domestic Preparedness, and direct FEMA's National Advisory Council to draft a comprehensive study to reduce the costs and losses from disasters.", "foreign_entity_issues": "", "lobbyists": [{"lobbyist": {"id": 34048, "prefix": "mr", "prefix_display": "MR.", "first_name": "KENNETH", "nickname": null, "middle_name": "PAUL", "last_name": "LASALA", "suffix": "jr", "suffix_display": "JR"}, "covered_position": null, "new": false}, {"lobbyist": {"id": 57525, "prefix": "mr", "prefix_display": "MR.", "first_name": "EVAN", "nickname": null, "middle_name": "SCOTT", "last_name": "DAVIS", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": null, "new": 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