LegiStorm Part 8 | What Are They Up To Now?
Keep tabs on Capitol Hill
We are nearing the end of this tour of LegiStorm.com, the site that lets you look at extensive financial information about our nation’s leaders. Now, it’s time to take a look at what’s possibly my favorite section on the site.
Click on the tab called The Score, [...]
LegiStorm Part 7 | Understanding Earmarks
How special projects get funding
You can tell a lot about lawmakers’ personal interests by checking out the earmarks they sponsor. Earmarks are well-documented and categorized at LegiStorm.
You can view earmarks by sponsor’s name, state, organization or which bill they were attached to. There is even a separate category for presidential [...]
LegiStorm 6: Financial Disclosures | Too Much Information? Never!
Personal finance, public information
When you move on to the Financial Disclosures section of LegiStorm, it’s pretty interesting to see how much information is public domain. You can find out spouse employment, outside compensation and prior employment, among other things.
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If you really want to get into the nitty-gritty and [...]
LegiStorm 5 | A Journey Through Congressional Travel Spending
Take off on a travel audit
So, now that you know how much your Senators and Representatives make, let’s keep in mind that many of them get to go on all-expenses-paid trips as well. The next section of the LegiStorm web site after “salaries” is “trips.”
User-friendly snooping
The trips section of the [...]
LegiStorm 4 | Join in the Fun
How-to guide for the site
Now that I have hopefully intrigued you with tales of LegiStorm’s expert sleuthing abilities, it is time for you to learn to make the most of this trove of information.
The next few articles in this series will walk you through different parts of LegiStorm.com as a [...]
LegiStorm Part 3 | More Fun Facts and Angry Politicians
LegiStorm highlights “gotchas”
Although it was United States leaders who passed the laws declaring their salaries and expenditures public information, they are none too happy that people are taking advantage of those laws. Many leaders and Congressional staffers have lashed out at Jock Friedly, creator of LegiStorm, a searchable online database [...]
LegiStorm Part 2 | 2008 a Big Year For Bonuses on Capitol Hill
Balking at big bonuses
As the Wall Street Journal points out: “Congress has been flaying companies for giving out bonuses while on the government dole.” However, according to LegiStorm, the bonuses doled out to Congressional staffers last year were among the highest in years.
Those bonuses are also courtesy of taxpayers.
LegiStorm tells [...]
LegiStorm Tells All About Congressional Salaries, Personal Finances
Web site gives full financial disclosure
Congressional salaries are public information. However, that doesn’t stop Capitol Hill staffers from ranting and raving about LegiStorm.com, a web site that makes it a snap to find out how much Sen. Bob Corker makes.
It’s $179,000 per year, by the way.
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