You should be able to get the information about government that you want - and maybe even some you didn't know you were looking for.
Poligraft is a tool that allows anyone to uncover levels of influence in Congressional politics and the news coverage of it. Using data from Sunlight’s TransparencyData.com and the upcoming Influence Explorer, Poligraft allows you to connect the dots between money and politics in Congress. Simply paste the URL or text of a news article, blog post or press release and Poligraft will create an enhanced view of the people, organizations and relationships described within it.
Our new Politiwidgets make inserting information on a Member of Congress into a blog post as easy as embedding a YouTube video. We have nine free widgets can help you display lawmakers' top campaign contributors, earmarks they have requested, their voting record on any current bill, where their fundraisers are, along with many others.
Public=Online is a national, non-partisan campaign seeking to create a transparent government built on open data and information. Between now and November 2010, we are ensuring government transparency is a major issue in the mid-term elections by building a grassroots movement of citizens demanding that government information be made available online and in real-time.
Transparency Data is a central source for all federal and state campaign contributions made in the last twenty years. Here you can begin your search, find the information you need and then download records of what a candidate has received, what an individual has given, and how much companies and their employees have given.
Real Time Congress is the fast and free way to access real-time information about Congress on your iPhone. This app puts the actions, meetings and documents that make up the legislative process right at your fingertips.
Congress is a pocket Congressional directory for phones running the Android operating system. It takes full advantage of the Sunlight Labs API to show you up-to-date info about members of Congress, and to pull in updates from members' Twitter and YouTube accounts.
OpenCongress brings together official government data with news and blog coverage, social networking, public participation tools, and more to give you the real story behind what's happening in Congress. OpenCongress is a free, open-source, not-for-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission to make Congress more transparent and to encourage civic engagement.
Foreign Lobbyist Influence Tracker, a joint project of ProPublica and the Sunlight Foundation, digitizes information that representatives of foreign governments, political parties and government-controlled entities must disclose to the U.S. Justice Department when they seek to influence U.S. policy.
Congrelate lets you view, sort, filter and share information about members of Congress and their districts.
Transparency Corps allows anyone anywhere to have a positive impact on making our government more transparent by aggregating small actions that require human intelligence but not specialized political knowledge.
Documenting the Congressional Fundraising Circuit. From the early morning hours until late at night, there are opportunities for members of Congress and congressional candidates to meet with supporters behind closed doors, press them for money, and party. Breakfasts, luncheons, barbecues, golfing outings, receptions, concerts, basketball, baseball, football—the social whirl is endless.
Featuring jobs from both the US Federal Government as well as Non-Government Organizations
The Library Of Unified Information Sources, an effort, to paraphrase Justice Louis Brandeis, to illuminate the workings of the federal government.
OpenSecrets.org – a project of the Center for Responsive Politics – is the premiere source of data on money in national politics.
LittleSis brings transparency to influential social networks by tracking the key relationships of politicians, corporate executives, lobbyists, financiers, and their affiliated organizations.
The National Institute on Money in State Politics operates a searchable database of all campaign contributions to political campaigns at the state level.
Metavid is a project that captures, streams, archives and facilitates real-time collective remediation of federal legislative proceedings.
MAPLight.org provides a detailed analysis of legislation by tracking bills, the support and opposition bills garner from interest groups and the campaign contributions given by those interest groups to members of Congress and for the state of California.
Fedspending.org – a project of OMB Watch – combines data from the Federal Procurement Data System and the Federal Assistance Award Data System to create a free, searchable database of federal government contracting and spending.
GovTrack.us centralizes information on the legislative process into a Web site Users can search through member of Congress profiles, bills, votes, and committee action.
Open CRS – a project of the Center for Democracy & Technology – aggregates Congressional Research Service reports that have been released to the public by members of Congress in a searchable database for free public access.
Taxpayers for Common Sense provides reports on pork barrel projects and earmarks in Congress analyzing bills in real-time and providing databases of information.