1: Budgeting, Appropriating, and Spending Data

Access data about the federal government's budgeting, appropriating, and spending.

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Publication Practices for Transparent Government: Budgeting, Appropriations, and Spending -- How well can the Internet access data about the federal government's budgeting, appropriating, and spending? In consultation with transparency experts, the Cato Institute's director of information policy studies, Jim Harper, rated how Congress and the administration publish key spending-cycle data in terms of authoritative sourcing, availability, machine-discoverability, and machine-readability. These criteria envision a world where there is one authoritative source for each category of information. Unfortunately, what spending data there is appears in a lot of sources that have grown up haphazardly. There might even be some sources we don't know about. Future grades will undoubtedly reflect improvements in what researchers, reporters, websites, and the public at large can see and use, aided by their computers.

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1: Agencies

2: Bureaus

3: Programs

4: Projects

5: Budget Documents

6: Budget Authority

7: Warrants, Apportionments, and Allocations

8: Obligations

9: Parties

10: Outlays

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