Our Mission

Making Congressional Funding
Transparent & Accessible

Every member of Congress receives money from Political Action Committees, lobbying organizations, and corporate interests. CongressWatch puts all of that information in the palm of your hand β€” so you can see exactly who's funding your representatives.

Why CongressWatch Exists

Campaign finance data is public. The FEC publishes every PAC donation, every committee filing, every dollar spent. But the raw data is spread across dozens of government databases, buried in cryptic CSV files, and nearly impossible for a regular person to make sense of.

CongressWatch bridges that gap. We've built a pipeline that ingests data from the FEC, matches it to every sitting member of Congress, enriches PAC records with AI to make them understandable, and presents it all in a clean, intuitive mobile app. You search a name β€” you see the money.

We don't tell you how to vote. We don't tell you which party is better. We believe that an informed citizen is a powerful citizen β€” and that transparency itself is the point. Whether you want to hold your representatives accountable or simply understand who funds them, CongressWatch gives you the tools to see for yourself.

Where the Data Comes From

Every number in CongressWatch traces back to an official government filing or is enriched by AI with full transparency.

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Federal Election Commission (FEC)

We ingest bulk data from the FEC β€” every PAC disbursement, committee filing, and contribution record. This is the definitive source for tracking political money in America.

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Senate LDA (Lobbying Disclosure Act)

Registered lobbyists disclose their political contributions semi-annually via LD-203 filings. We pull these directly from the Senate to connect lobbying money to PACs and politicians.

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AI-Powered Entity Resolution

PAC names are often cryptic ("COMMITTEE FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT"). We use GPT-4 to enrich every PAC with plain-English descriptions, industry tags, cause classifications, and ideological leanings.

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Automated Data Pipeline

Our four-stage pipeline runs automatically: load legislators from official sources, ingest FEC PAC data, AI-enrich all PACs, then match lobbying contributions. Over 425,000 funding records processed.

By the Numbers

538
Politicians
10,009
PACs Tracked
425,417
Funding Records
50,852
Lobbying Matches

Built by ConsoleLog LLC

CongressWatch is designed and developed by ConsoleLog LLC. We build tools that make public data accessible. If you have questions, feedback, or ideas, we'd love to hear from you.

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