Tracking Committee Website Transparency

= Introduction =

Each committee's website is graded below, according to the checklist featured on Sunlight's Suggestions for Committee Website Content.

Our findings for 2011 are also summarized in these three blogposts:
 * Congress Online: Evaluating Congressional Committee Websites (8/25/2011)
 * Congress Online: Legislation, Hearings, Subcommittees, and Ethics Disclosure ([7/27/2011 http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/07/27/congress-online-legislation-hearings-subcommittees-and-ethics-disclosure/])
 * Congress Online: Congressional Media ([8/2/2011 http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/08/02/congress-online-congressional-media/])

= House Committees = 

= Senate Committees = 

= Joint Committees =  = Transparency Notables =

These committee websites provided tools that promote transparency beyond what we recommended.


 * Joint Committee on Taxation has detailed reports on things like tax expenditures which provide useful insight into how the federal government works.
 * Special Committee on Aging has a detailed issues page and provides a lot of information that is non-partisan including a number of relevant CRS reports.
 * Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works provides a list of all bills referred to committee, as well as a link to THOMAS that follows legislative action on bills.
 * Senate Budget Committee and House Budget useful analysis of the budget process.
 * Senate Armed Services has full disclosure of all directed spending requests, as well as the signed documents from individual Senators who requested the spending saying that they do not have a conflict of interest.
 * House Rules Committee allows you to follow legislation, including when it will appear on the floor
 * House Committee on Natural Resources posts “Dear Colleague” letters.
 * House Administration publishes monthly expenses of all committees.
 * House Appropriations lets you “follow the bill” through an embedded THOMAS app.