On November 30, 2009, the US House of Representatives released the quarterly Statement of Disbursements online for the first time. Since the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer posted these in PDF format, Sunlight created a searchable database of each House member's expenditures. This database contains information that is a subset of the information provided in the PDFs.
The first two databases below present the expenditures first in summary format and then in a more detailed itemized view. (This mimics how the House published the expenditures.)
This release marks a proactive stance from the US House. By voluntarily publishing this information online, the US House is responding to new expectations that information be available online for it to be truly public.
UPDATE: We've added House expenditures by committee in summary and detailed form.