See what lawmakers are spending
Starting today, spending records for House offices are available online.
The records have always been public.
How much money House members spend on travel, office supplies and even staff salaries have long been open for public inspection. It is, after all, taxpayer money.
But as Roll Call's Emily Yehle points out, for decades the only way members of the public could see those records was to visit the Capitol complex and look through one of the giant books produced every three months with 'dispursements' listed, or to buy a copy of those books through the Goverment Printing Office.
But that changes, starting today.
Now, those same books are available to read online, at the House website's statement of disburrsements page . It's still in a clunky PDF format so paging through the records is a bit of a chore, but it's a start.
-- Scott Montgomery, Congress.org
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