We the undersigned hereby petition Congress and the Obama administration to produce and publish data about earmarks in machine-readable form so that we can fully review earmark requests, see what earmarks are inserted into bills, and see every earmark that is approved and signed into law. To that end we urge them to accept and make use of the EarmarkData.org data format to publish earmark data and keep their promise to the American people.
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Along with the individual signatories, the following organizations and individuals endorse the petition requesting earmark data from Congress and the administration, and endorsing the EarmarkData.org proposed schema. To add your name, contact us and join the growing list of people saying, "Just give us the earmark data!"
- Americans for Tax Reform
- Center for Fiscal Accountability
- Silona Bonewald, Citability.org*
- Citizens Against Government Waste
- Edward Felten, Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy*
- GovTrack.us
- iSolon.org
- MAPLight.org
- National Taxpayers Union
- OMB Watch
- OpenTheGovernment.org
- OpenRegs.com
- Participatory Politics Foundation
- Carl Malamud, Public.Resource.Org
- Sunlight Foundation
- Taxpayers for Common Sense
- WashingtonWatch.com
*Organization is not an endorser. It is included for identification purposes only.