Data sources & credits
| Source | Used for | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives — Financial Disclosure Reports (disclosures-clerk.house.gov): yearly bulk index {YEAR}FD.zip and filing PDFs | List of House filings; annual reports and amendments (Schedules A, B, D) | Public records. Each member report links every source filing and shows its SHA-256. |
| U.S. Senate Electronic Financial Disclosure (efdsearch.senate.gov) | Senators' and former senators' electronic annual reports (Parts 3, 4 and 7) | Public records, accessed through the site's own click-through agreement flow. Paper (scanned) Senate reports were not used. |
| unitedstates/congress-legislators | Roster, Bioguide IDs, terms, party, state | CC0 (public domain dedication). |
| unitedstates/images | Official member portraits shown in reports (keyed by Bioguide ID) | U.S. government works, public domain. Members without a portrait show a neutral grey silhouette. |
Open-source tools used in the pipeline: Python, pdfplumber, PyMuPDF, Beautiful Soup, RapidOCR (ONNX runtime), Jinja2 and WeasyPrint. No third-party scripts, fonts, analytics or advertising are loaded by this site.
Thanks to the maintainers of the unitedstates projects for the public-domain roster and portrait data, and to the Clerk of the House and the Senate for publishing the disclosures.
See the methodology for how these sources were retrieved and processed.