Senate Expenditure Reports

The rules regarding the publication of House and Senate Expenditure reports is detailed in 2 USC 104a. (link)

The Legislative Appropriations Act for FY 2010 (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:hr2918.enr: link--search for "reporting requirement"]) added paragraph 6, requiring the Clerk of the Senate to publish online a searchable, itemized expenditure report. It says, in full: REPORTING REQUIREMENT

Sec. 2. Section 105(a) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act 1965 (Public Law 88-454; 2 U.S.C. 104a) is amended--

(1) in the last sentence of paragraph (1), by striking `shall' and inserting `may'; and

(2) by adding at the end the following:

`(6) Beginning with the report covering the first full semiannual period of the 112th Congress, the Secretary of the Senate-- `

(1) shall publicly post on-line on the website of the Senate each report in a searchable, itemized format as required under this section;

`(2) shall issue each report required under this section in electronic form; and

`(3) may issue each report required under this section in other forms at the discretion of the Secretary of the Senate.'.