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Get Involved Contact About About Deprecation Notice Methodology Data Updates Go Enter a politician, company or individual donor -- Groups Industries Businesses & Other Organizations Political Groups Lobbying Orgs -- Places Cities States -- People Individuals Lobbyists Politicians -- Collections Campaign Finance Lobbying Regulations Federal Spending Contractor Misconduct EPA Violations Advisory Committees -- Campaign Finance Federal Campaign Finance Lobbying Lobbying Registrations Post-Employment Notifications Foreign About Agent Feed Proposed Arms Feed Data -- Facebook Twitter Explore companies, lawmakers and prominent individuals that matter to you and see how they're influencing the political system What's New Going Real-Time! We're excited to announce that we're starting a new chapter in the life of . Going forward, 's goal will be to get crucial influence data to you as soon as IT'S available. Our mission will be to publish useful data as soon as possible to support the work of reporters, watchdogs and researchers who need to know what's happening right now. The necessary trade-off with live streams is that data quality will be heavily influenced by the quality of releases from the government. We'll be working iteratively to improve the automated systems that we've developed to improve that quality without sacrificing speed, but be aware that this data is not meant to be authoritative. Instead, it should be viewed as a resource for tracking live events and generating leads for new investigations. So please explore these new resources, and give us your feedback! Retiring TransparencyData Along with the changes coming to , we'll also be phasing out the TransparencyData project. TransparencyData started more than five years ago as a resource for mashing up data from OpenSecrets.org and FollowTheMoney.org , along with a few other sources. In the years since, both OpenSecrets and FollowTheMoney have matured and today each makes their data available both in bulk and through APIs. At Sunlight, we're thrilled to see that, and recognize the limited utility of having a third-party API that republishes these resources. With that in mind, and with huge congratulations to our partners at the Center for Responsive Politics and the National Institute on Money in State Politics, we're retiring TransparencyData. Starting in September 2015, we are deprecating the and TransparencyData APIs. They will be turned off beginning January 2016. Top Pages check out what's being explored Tools bring influence data to your email, banking and news Inbox Influence See the political contributions of the people and organizations that are mentioned in emails you receive. Checking Influence When you shop, do you wonder where your money really goes? Poligraft See connections between money and politics in news articles you read everyday. Influence Explored regularly updated news and analysis using OpenFEC API makes new itemized data available August 18, 2015, 4:18 a.m. This post is also available as an IPython notebook Not long after we released our initial how-to introducing the new OpenFEC API , the 18F team announced that they were making even more available . This made our day because they quickly ticked off two items from the wish list we published: endpoints for itemized data and per-contributor and per-recipient aggregates. This followup post introduces some of the new additions and why they're so important. What's (newly) available The official documentation for the API is the best source for getting to know what it has to offer, but here are some of the new things you can look forward to interacting with: Filings - All of the official records and reports that committees file with the FEC. This includes all of the (many) forms listed on the FEC's forms page . Itemized Receipts - Schedule A itemizes a committee's receipts from individuals and other organizations. You can now explore the entire list of contributions that make up the receipt totals listed in financial reports. Itemized Disbursements - Schedule B itemizes a committee's disbursements such as campaign expenditures, staff payments, or donations to other committees. This gives the line items that make ... Read More About Changelog Contact -- A Product of the Sunlight Foundation Like this Project and Want to Discover Others Like It? Join the Sunlight Foundation's open government community to learn more. Email Zip Code Sign Up Sunlight Foundation Open Secrets National Institute on Money in State Politics Project on Government Oversight The Sunlight Foundation is a nonpartisan nonprofit that advocates for open government globally and uses technology to make government more accountable to all....