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How Congress Spends Billions on Itself: About This Series

(July 21) -- The Sunlight Foundation is a nonpartisan nonprofit that uses technology to try to make government more transparent. One way it does that is to release (in cooperation with the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call) massive, searchable databases culled from the House of Representatives' expense reports. There's...

What Congress Bought Itself With Your $1 Billion

(July 21) -- Congress requires a lot of stuff to keep itself running. Like coffee. And plane tickets. And student loan payments. That's the point underscored (and underscored again) by figures collated by the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit that uses technology to try to make government more transparent. In...