US federal lobbying disclosures (Senate LDA) — who lobbies for whom, on what issues, for how much. Filter by registrant (firm), client, lobbyist, year, period, type. Returns income/expenses, registrant + client, issues, document URL.
AI agents call gov.lobbying-filings to retrieve information from Mcp without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries publicly available lobbying disclosure records with no side effects. It performs data retrieval and filtering operations on immutable historical filings. No data is created, modified, deleted, executed, or committed financially. The risk is low — misuse would expose already-public regulatory disclosures, which poses no confidentiality or destructive harm.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves and filters historical US federal lobbying disclosure data (Senate LDA filings) — 'who lobbies for whom, on what issues, for how much' — returning income, expenses, registrant, client, issues, and document URLs.
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US federal lobbying disclosures (Senate LDA) — who lobbies for whom, on what issues, for how much. Filter by registrant (firm), client, lobbyist, year, period, type. Returns income/expenses, registrant + client, issues, document URL. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for gov.lobbying-filings: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Mcp. Nothing to install.
gov.lobbying-filings is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the gov.lobbying-filings rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for gov.lobbying-filings. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
gov.lobbying-filings is provided by the MCP server (@2sio/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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