Directories

http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/resources -- List of Sunlight Resources

Understanding the Budget Process

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_budget_process
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Appropriations

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget -- The Budget

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget -- The Budget from the President

2008 Budget

1. http://thomas.loc.gov/home/gpoxmlc110/hc99_eh.xml -- House final resolution
2. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/db.html -- Overview of Resources
3. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/pdf/db_guide.pdf -- Users Guide/Data Descriptions
4. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/sheets/budauth.xls -- the budget

General Legislative Resources

1. http://xml.house.gov/ -- Legislative Documents in XML at the United States House of Representatives
2. http://xml.gov -- Unsure of status
3. http://thomas.loc.gov -- Search legislation

Walk through:

Appropriation of Funds for Agriculture. We follow the link from the table of Status of Appropriations of Legislation for Fiscal Year 2008 (http://thomas.loc.gov/home/approp/app08.html).

Here you can find the committee reports, the people who voted (and who didn't!), and it goes all the way through to public law when it is made.

1. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?c110:./temp/~c1105MdVD0 -- Appropriations bill
2. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/R?cp110:FLD010:@1(hr258) -- Committee report
3. http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2007&rollnumber=816 -- The house vote
4. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/R?cp110:FLD010:@1(sr134) -- Senate Committee report.

It has not passed the senate yet.