Lobbying Reporting System: Lobbyist Gift Reports - November 1, 2005 to September 16, 2016

This dataset shows the value and nature of gifts made by lobbyists registered with the Maryland State Ethics Commission from November 1, 2005 to September 16, 2016.

Data are provided by the Maryland State Ethics Commission. To view the most recent data, please visit: http://search.lobby.ethics.state.md.us:8080/search.

A lobbying year runs from November 1 through October 31. Activity reports are filed for each six-month period from November 1 to April 30 and May 1 to October 31.

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"opendata-maryland-gov/lobbying-reporting-system-lobbyist-gift-reports-fi2b-gq4m\".\"lobbying_reporting_system_lobbyist_gift_reports\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.