Your Government Transparency “To Do”
Posted by Jim Harper
Right now, the House and Senate are drafting bills that control how legislative information is made available to the public. The “legislative branch” appropriations bills govern many aspects of life on Capitol Hill, including whether the data about what Congress does is available as a database, or whether it’s released in dribs and drabs. Many [...]
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Earmark Zero: The Durham Museum Photo Archive Project
Posted by Jim Harper
Our earmarks database has over 33,000 earmark requests in it, and a small crew of transparency heroes are working diligently to capture them all. The list of “wanted” members and senators is dwindling. The next step will be tagging the thousands of earmarks that have made it into the appropriations bills now being considered in [...]
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