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The pay and expense framework for U.S. senators combines a base salary subject to annual adjustments, a suite of appropriated allowances for official duties (staff, offices, travel, mail, interns), an...
Congressional financial disclosures are publicly available and governed by the Ethics in Government Act and the STOCK Act, which require annual reports and periodic transaction reports for many filers...
Senate rules and federal statute permit Senators and Senate employees to accept certain items from foreign governments only within tightly prescribed limits and reporting requirements, with the Foreig...
Yes — U.S. senators do pay federal (and state) income taxes on their salaries; congressional pay is set by law and treated as taxable income under the Internal Revenue Code, and special rules and limi...
The core finding: available documents show the , while the , but the provided materials do not present a fully aligned, day‑by‑day comparison between the two chambers. The Senate schedule is labeled t...
Corporate lobbying disclosures provide a visible ledger of who pays whom to press lawmakers on —names of registrants, issues lobbied and expenditure brackets are published by congressional offices and...
must file annual under the and related House and Senate rules, which require listing positions in business enterprises and interests in property, including privately held companies, but the forms reco...
ional financial disclosure rules currently let lawmakers report asset and liability values in broad ranges rather than exact dollar amounts, a practice grounded in the ’s public reporting framework an...
Recreating a country-by-senator contributions table requires assembling two public but distinct datasets — FEC campaign finance records and Senate public financial/lobbying disclosures — and then engi...
The authoritative public repositories for U.S. Senate financial and travel disclosures are the Senate Office of Public Records (OPR) and the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, which operates the eFD f...
The definitive public repositories for Senate roll‑call (yeas and nays) from the 99th Congress are the Library of Congress’s Congress.gov roll‑call pages and the U.S. Senate’s official votes and clotu...
Senate rules sharply limit gifts and foreign-funded travel: gifts from registered lobbyists or agents of foreign principals are broadly prohibited, ordinary non‑cash gifts under $50 from other sources...
The claim that “Democrats voted against government reopen bills 13 times” cannot be verified with the materials provided because the three documents in the analysis packet contain no relevant informat...