Sunlight follows the federal politics money trail

Are you wondering if your neighbors donated money to Norm Coleman? Want to know the biggest organizations backing Keith Ellison? Curious if a member of Congress is bringing pork-barrel spending home to your district?

A unique tool from the Sunlight Foundation lets you follow the money trail in federal politics. Track individual donations and PAC funding to your favorite representative. Suspicious of cronyism? Connect the dots between lobbying expenditures, earmarks and federal contracts. Sunlight gathers its information from election filings and new budgetary laws that shed more light on earmark sponsorship.

Follow these elected officials' money trails: