Why this view matters

Lobbying disclosure is partitioned by jurisdiction: Nevada keeps its registry, the U.S. Senate keeps its own. Reading either alone misses the through-line. An entity that retains both a Nevada lobbyist and a federal lobbying firm is operating across two policy venues — what public-choice scholars call venue shopping: when reform threatens at one level, pressure migrates to the other (see Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action, 1965, on concentrated benefits and dispersed costs across jurisdictions; Gordon Tullock, The Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft, 1967, on rent-seeking budgets). Joining the registries by entity name produces what neither single registry shows: the full political-influence footprint of a single legal entity.

This page does not attribute motive. It records two facts publicly: the entity registered to lobby Nevada, and the entity registered to lobby Congress. Readers can interpret what the conjunction means for any specific industry.

How matching works

For each distinct client on the 83rd (2025) Session Nevada lobbyist registry, we query the U.S. Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) API for matching client filings. The match is tokenwise high-confidence on entity name (e.g. "Las Vegas Sands Corp" → "Las Vegas Sands Corporation" matches; "Switch" → "Switched Source LLC" does not). LDA filing counts include every quarterly report on file across all years and all federal registrants.

What this list shows. An entity appearing here is publicly disclosing lobbying in two jurisdictions: Nevada (state) and federal (Congress/agencies). The list does not assert what was lobbied for or against — only that the same legal entity is paying lobbyists in both arenas.

What this list does not show. Federal lobbying done under a different legal name (parent, subsidiary, or trade-association affiliate) won't appear unless that name is in our Nevada registry. Federal absence here is not proof of no federal lobbying — it's proof that the names didn't match high-confidence.

Source: U.S. Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act Database. See /methodology for the full pipeline.