Along with the lack of coherent regulations towards lobbying, public and constituent pressure increased the urgency of creating the LDA.

This raised the concern about lobbying practices in a bipartisan manner,[6] which led to even further pressure to address the problem.

All these factors contributed to applying pressure to the government to come up with a bill, which led to the Lobbying Disclosure Act being enacted.

[7] The Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 was introduced on January 4, 1995, in the House and Senate and was passed on at the end of the year on December 29, 1995.

The LDA went through many stages; These steps illustrate legislative process the lobbying disclosure act undertook to become finalized as law.

[10] The legislation does not include those lobbyists whose "activities constitute less than 20 percent of the time engaged in services", thus failing to regulate grassroots (small donors) lobbying.

Due to severe understaffing, these two offices are unable to check for illegal activities or corrupt practices, which is the most glaring shortcoming of the legislation.