Turning House and Senate Office Expenditures Reports

into Data

Sheila Krumholz, Executive Director

House/Senate office expenditure reports

Transparency• Report images now published online• Still needs improvement

…SHOULD be: machine-readable data

…and COULD be (already in data form?)

Why is better access important?• Transparency is essential to assure public confidence.• One of the few sources of information on Hill personnel

that is still freely available to the public.

Why does that matter?

That’s not all….

Not all fun and games

Access made meaningful

• PDFs are better, but not sufficient

• Contact us:– skrumholz@crp.org– @skrmhlz– info@crp.org– @opensecretsdc