Fact Check: Obama releases long-form birth certificate to try to satisfy critics

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FACT CHECK: Obama releases long-form birth certificate to quell birthers

Issa releases letters from industry on regulations

By Aaron Mehta

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, has released a massive collection of letters recei

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"… gh www.AmericanJobCreators.com, are available in a 1,947-page unsearchable PDF file hosted on Issa’s congressional website.Financial groups like the Fi …"

'SpeechNow' PACs hard to find in FEC database

By Josh Israel and Aaron Mehta

As the Center for Public Integrity reported earlier this month, the Federal Election Commission must be notified when a political committee

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"… know if a committee has filed a Form 1 is to search through often-lengthy .PDF files by hand. With 1,154 independent expenditure committees already in th …"

"… Online, not searchableUsability: Databases make information available in .PDF forms, but not in a sortable or searchable manner.The Data Mine is a joint …"

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New lobbyist bundler database not yet searchable

By Aaron Mehta and Josh Israel

When Democrats took over both chambers of Congress following the 2006 elections, one of their top priorities was a bill with tougher lobbyin

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"… d downloadable.” However, the scanned forms are stored in non-searchable PDF formats, are in no way indexed by bundler name, and are, in some cases, ba …"

"… o?format=htmlAvailability: Accessible to the publicFormat: Non-searchable .PDFUsability: Non-searchable files, some handwritten and some illegibleThe Dat …"

Congressional expense reports slowly move online from dusty basement

By Laurel Adams

The House of Representatives took a step toward greater government transparency last year by posting its expense reports online, but the clu

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"… ansparency last year by posting its expense reports online, but the clunky PDF format makes it difficult to compare lawmakers’ outlays or to pinpoint e …"

"… sistencies in how individual lawmakers report where the money went and the PDF format used to present the data.“It falls short of many transparency sta …"

"… online in 2011 but details unavailable.Usability: House expense reports in PDF format and difficult to search.The Data Mine is a joint project of the Cen …"

Ten million CIA documents require in-person visit

By Jim Morris

The Central Intelligence Agency maintains more than 10 million pages of declassified, post-World War II documents, covering everything from

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"… themselves must be viewed in College Park or obtained through FOIAFormat: PDFUsability: Must print documentsThe Data Mine is a joint project of the Cent …"

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Gitmo detainee classifications remain detached from identities

By Gabriel Debenedetti

When the Guantanamo Review Task Force summary report was released in June — more than five months after its completion — it marked the lates

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"… y: Online but fails to specify which detainees are in each categoryFormat: PDFSend your tips on government data sets that you think should be made more a …"

Harken documents

By The Center for Public Integrity

October 17, 2002 — In the wake of the corporate scandals that began with Enron Corp.'s collapse in October 2001, there has been renewed inte

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"… ts on which we based our reporting.As a public service, we are offering in PDF format the previously posted documents, in addition to some new material.T …"

Securities and Exchange Commission documents

July 3, 2002 — Because of a column by Paul Krugman that ran in The New York Times and a follow-up Washington Post story, there has been rene

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"… d the second on April 4, 2001.As a public service, we are offering here in PDF format some of the documents we received from the Securities and Exchange …"

Re-named offshore energy agency urged to publish production data

By Linsey Isaacs

The scandal-wracked Minerals Management Services changed its name to Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE)

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"… ilable in chart format from 1997 through this year.Usability: Documents in PDF format; no consolidated search mechanism available.Send your tips on gover …"

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