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The Tech Stack You Need to Stay Ahead of Congress

Amid the shifting power dynamics in Congress, staying ahead of the curve has never been more crucial. With new legislation on the horizon and a number of key issues to prioritize, the burning question is: are you ready?

FiscalNote is your one source for all of the policy solutions necessary to guide you through this important year by navigating policy issues, engaging with key stakeholders, and ramping up your advocacy strategy.

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The Most Comprehensive Congressional Coverage

Dig deep into the details with the most powerful federal intelligence 

PolicyNote provides powerful, intelligent tools to help policy professionals track and understand the latest legislative developments happening on Capitol Hill. Our comprehensive CQ database includes the most expansive collection of government documents, including draft bill text and agency documents, congressional press releases, “Dear Colleague” letters, OMB, CBO, and GAO documents, as well as other hard-to-find government reports. 

“CQ always gets me the information I need — sometimes even faster than the official government websites are updated,” said Shelley Castle, legislative specialist for government relations and public affairs at Hogan Lovells. “That puts me ahead of the game and makes me look like a superstar!”  

Make informed decisions with trusted, nonpartisan news and insights 

Our team of expert journalists at Roll Call has decades of experience covering Congress and the White House. You can trust them to bring you the insightful, nonpartisan news and analysis you need to make better, more informed decisions. Our real-time, precision alerts send you timely intelligence on the latest issues and emergent trends across the U.S.

Get full visibility on every aspect of the budget cycle 

For the best analysis of the budget and appropriations cycle available, look no further than CQ Budget. Our budget and appropriations coverage goes above and beyond any other outlet on the Hill, with deep-dive articles that carefully illustrate where the funding is expected to go. We provide a comprehensive breakdown of every spending bill, appropriation, continuing resolution, omnibus, and budget proposal, overlaid with insights into the political power struggle behind the numbers in one comprehensive database. 

Special coverage of the House and the Senate 

CQ House: Five distinct reports specifically designed to prepare House members and their staff for the day and week ahead on the House floor. Includes exclusive forward-looking insights into key legislation, amendments, and agendas. 

CQ Senate: Legislative news and in-depth schedule information from the Senate floor. Searchable with alerts or a daily newsletter, it gives you a deep dive in real-time from the industry’s best editorial team. Curated coverage of the Senate’s agenda, including up-to-date schedules and floor action summaries, legislative news, and behind-the-scenes exclusives.

We’ll Read the Bills. You Read the Room.

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The Stakeholder Toolkit You Need to Achieve Success

Make your Hill meetings efficient and productive

Ensuring your organization’s objectives are consistently voiced to key stakeholders is essential to advancing your public policy agenda.

Keeping track of, engaging with, and managing relationships with these individuals is arguably one of the most important aspects of your role. Do your due diligence with PolicyNote’s intuitive stakeholder management tools by seamlessly accessing the most up-to-date stakeholder information for legislators and their staff.

You’ll also be able to collaborate internally so everyone on your team knows who is having interactions with whom, which stakeholders are key to driving your organizational objectives, and where to leverage resources or build closer ties. With this knowledge on hand, you’ll be able to confidently walk into meetings and productively move the conversation forward.

Report on your stakeholder engagements and measure your impact

Creating informed, up-to-date briefings or reports is a great way to show the value of your work. With the dynamic reporting tools found in PolicyNote, you can instantly create shareable, visual reports providing an at-a-glance view into your relationships with key policymakers, the policy you’re seeking to influence, and your team’s latest activity to do so.

Visualize your engagements with your most important stakeholders, measure your influence over pieces of legislation or regulation, and holistically understand the impact of key working relationships and actions with these enhanced reports.

Leverage the premier congressional outreach platform

To educate and inform legislators and their staff on why they should listen to you, you have to first know who to even talk to. Knowlegis is the best-in-class messaging platform that provides you with a repository of congressional contact information for efficiently finding and communicating with the right federal legislators.

Never miss a development in your district 

You need to make sure you never miss a meeting or agenda at the local level where you, or a key piece of legislation you’re associated with, is mentioned. Driven by a powerful AI engine and fine-tuned by human analysis, Curate automatically surfaces the most important issues from local government meeting minutes and agenda documents for your office. 

Our comprehensive tracking of local governments and school boards, as well as automated insights, keep you abreast of local concerns, issues, and discussions requiring action at a scale and efficiency that can’t be accomplished manually. 

Show lawmakers the value you bring to their district 

You already know the importance you bring to communities where you have assets or chapters such as offices, warehouses, manufacturing plants, or supply chain warehouses. But do the members in those districts understand? 

The PolicyNote+ asset mapping service lets you overlay your organization’s footprint around the country with a report that shows your impact using hard metrics. You can customize the report to summarize everything from the number of employees, physical locations, number of jobs, property tax paid, sales tax collected, payroll generated, and much more across both federal and state legislative districts.

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Digital Advocacy at your Fingertips

Keep the education and conversation going with VoterVoice 

Advocacy is a two-way street. Messaging your supporters about members’ positions on your issues and messaging your members about where your organization stands is equally important. 

VoterVoice does all the work for you, delivering your messages when and where you want them. Build and launch campaigns targeting the lawmakers who matter, track your progress, mobilize your supporters, and share follow-up materials including newsletters, surveys, and scorecards. 

Show how members measure up on your issues with congressional scorecards 

You need to understand how closely legislators are aligned with your voting preferences. How have these public officials voted in the past? What lawmakers are most and least likely to support your issue? 

Use VoterVoice to create congressional scorecards for your supporters so stakeholders can quickly assess whether candidates have a history of aligning on the key issues that matter to your organization. Our scorecards also make it easy to compare legislators so you can see where your support is most likely to come from.  

Run a successful PAC 

Keeping track of donations, managing contacts, building reports, and staying compliant with the FEC can get confusing and hard to handle using spreadsheets or different systems. FiscalNote’s PACbuilder brings all these functionalities together in one tool, simplifying and streamlining the PAC management and reporting process. 

PACbuilder’s disclosure center guides you through the steps to correctly fill out all forms and files directly to the federal and state ethics committees. Additionally, system alerts find and allow you to address potential issues before they become hurdles to compliance. 

The tool also allows you to manage your contacts and donors, segment them by location, donation history, or a number of other filters, and engage with them directly through the platform. You can even run campaigns and raise funds from PACbuilder’s centralized dashboard. 

FiscalNote’s PACbuilder also helps you report internally to your stakeholders with customizable analytics dashboards where you can see stats and charts related to your fundraising performance. Keeping your PAC on track is easy with PACbuilder, your one-stop shop for effective compliance management, reporting, and digital engagement.

For professionals seeking premiere support for their government affairs and advocacy teams, FiscalNote is a singular solution to meet their needs. Our AI-powered policy monitoring, professional news and analysis, advocacy, PAC compliance services, government procurement, tailored analysis, custom research, and more, are all conveniently available from one provider. Talk to us about solutions to help you achieve your organization's goals.

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