Project:Transparency Hub

Welcome to the Transparency Hub on the OpenCongress wiki. This project is loosely coordinated by [mailto:jwonderlich@sunlightfoundation.com John Wonderlich], Daniel Schuman, Laurenellen McCann, and Matt Rumsey at the Sunlight Foundation.

We hope this will serve as an open, collective knowledge base for the transparency community. Know something good? Share it here.

= Federal Government Resources =

Congress

 * House and Senate Rules and Procedures Resources
 * 112th House Rules
 * Publicly Available Ethics Documents: Overview, House, Senate
 * Committee jurisdictions and Sunlight's Suggestions for Committee Website Contents
 * Tracking Committee Website Transparency
 * House Statement of Disbursements and Senate Statement of Receipts and Expenditures
 * Information on Congressional Staff retention data (including salary information)
 * House Web Publications Analysis by Access Point
 * House of Representatives Public Information
 * House Travel Rules
 * New Media projects from Congress
 * Franking and Web Use Restrictions
 * Party Rules Online for Caucus and Conference
 * House Ethics Committee Search Tool
 * Super Congress
 * Services Sunlight Provides Using Congressional Data
 * Congressional steps towards transparency
 * House Committee Hearing Webcasts 2012
 * Public Availability of Committee "Summary of Activity" Reports

Legislative Support Agencies

 * The Constitution Annotated
 * Bulk Access to THOMAS legislative information and other THOMAS ideas
 * Public Availability of Congressional Research Service Reports
 * Legislative Support Agencies' Annual Reports

Legislation

 * Citizens United Policy Recommendations
 * Earmarks: History, Reform Legislation, and Evasion
 * Transparency Caucus
 * 72 Hour Rule
 * Lobbying reform bills
 * Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports
 * Resources on Senate Holds
 * Resources on Personal Finance Disclosures
 * Resources on Dear Colleague Letters
 * 111th Congress Transparency Bills
 * 112th Congress Transparency Bills
 * Broadcast Advertisement Disclosures Regulations
 * Save the Data Campaign, Spring 2011
 * Bills We're Watching
 * TransparencyBills to be Reintroduced in the 112th
 * Public Legislative Participation
 * Rhetoric around Money Influencing Elections
 * Rhetoric around Senate E-Filing
 * Rhetoric around Earmarks
 * Rhetoric around 72 Hour Rule
 * Rhetoric around 20% Lobbying Loophole
 * Disclose 2012

Executive Branch

 * Sources for Ethics Information Generated by the Executive Branch
 * Resources on TARP and Economic Stimulus Lobbying Rules
 * Statements by Independent Agencies on Implementing Financial Regulatory Reforms
 * What is an agency?
 * White House WAVES Visitor Logs
 * Presidential Memo on Regulatory Compliance Data
 * Online Content of the Office of Government Ethics
 * Online Content of the Office of Management and Budget
 * Online Content of the Office of Personnel Management
 * Online Content of the Food and Drug Administration
 * DOJ and FOIA
 * Drone Strikes

President Obama's Record

 * Obama Transparency Record
 * Resources and Recommendations on Obama's Transition to the Presidency
 * Obama Campaign Finance Rhetoric

Open Government Directive

 * Background Resources on the Open Government Directive
 * Open Government Directive Deadlines
 * Open Government Directive Implementation Tracking
 * Open Government Directive Plans 2.0

Judicial Branch

 * Supreme Court website suggested updates
 * Campaign finance legal developments post Citizens United

Federal Law

 * Current transparency legislation (Last updated May 2009)
 * Republican transparency promises
 * E-Gov Fund
 * Disclosure legislation family tree
 * Disclosure legislation
 * DISCLOSE Act Senate Whip Count
 * Paperwork Reduction Act
 * LDA resources
 * Budget resources
 * Statutes at Large

Other

 * Oil Spill Reforms
 * Unique Corporate Identifiers
 * Lobbying Disclosure Resources
 * Ex Parte Regulations
 * GAO Review of Financial Disclosure Reports
 * Unique Publicly-Available Entity Identifiers Used by the Government
 * Political Intelligence Firm Information
 * Federally Funded Research
 * Profiles of Technologist Political Figures

= Campaigns =

Presidential Election Tracking

 * Presidential Candidate Transparency Rhetoric

Foreign Money in U.S. Elections

 * Foreign Money in U.S. Elections

= International Resources =


 * Transparency Camp International 2011 Notes
 * UK Data Resources
 * UK Data Resources
 * International Organizations and Resources
 * Parliamentary Openness

Open Government Partnership

 * Open Government Partnership

= State and Local Resources =


 * State Lobbying Registration Requirements
 * State Lobbyist Disclosure Requirements
 * State Public Records Laws
 * State Transparency Bills
 * State Regulations Online
 * City Level Data Projects
 * DC.gov portal

Click on a state below for articles about its transparency laws, regulations and practices. These articles focus more on campaign contributions, lobbying and the electronic release of information.

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State-level transparency resources


 * Useful websites for state government transparency
 * The Sunshine Review and Center for Fiscal Accountability websites also have excellent resources on state government transparency, with focuses on spending and appropriations.
 * Directory of transparency-related organizations

DC-area transparency events


 * Upcoming transparency events (Last updated June 2009)

= Toolkit =


 * Open Data Principles and Database Creation Principles
 * Government-citizen collaboration projects and resources
 * Government-sponsored discussions about transparency
 * Technological Government Standards Coordination
 * Applications of government transparency
 * Transparency Evaluation Tools
 * Availability of Government Data


 * Delicious links links to articles covering a variety transparency-related topics (Last updated April 2009)
 * Reports and recommendations for government transparency
 * Asdf
 * Third party websites that transform government data
 * Free Sources of Gov't and Influence Data (And Private Sector Efforts)
 * Stories on Opening up Data from Government
 * The State of FOIA

Journalism and accountability projects

 * Journalism projects
 * Revealing super PAC Dark Money

Impactful uses of government data

 * Impactful uses of government data: Investigations and apps
 * Economic benefits of open data