Politics

4th Quarter House Statement of Disbursements?

By Daniel Schuman

On November 30, the House of Representatives released its third quarter Statement of Disbursements (July 1-Sept. 30) online in PDF format for the first time. We parsed that document to create a searchable database and wrote about our efforts.

The fourth quarter ended at the stroke of midnight on December 31st. This prompts a couple of questions:

• How long will it take for the fourth quarter’s Statement of Disbursements to be made available online?
• Will there be any changes in the document to make it easier for people to extract data?
• When will the print version be available from GPO? And where?

We’ve put together a wiki resource on Congressional vital statistics, with an emphasis on staff salary resources. We’re still trying to fill in the gaps.

Full post as published by Sunlight Foundation on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).