Update (May 7, 2009):  It has now been just over a month since the deadline for members to disclose on their websites all FY2010 earmark requests.  Download Version 9 of our disclosure database here and see if your member has disclosed their earmark requests:  Version 9 database

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Update (April 10, 2009 at 4:30 pm):  Following is yet another update to the database.  Nearly a week after public disclosure of requests were due, still not all members have released their requests.  See the database to determine if your member is complying with the House rules: Version 8 database here

Update (April 10, 2009 at 8:00 am): Earmark requests for a number of offices have been located in the last 24 hours, though many are still not disclosing their requests. Click here for Version 7 of the database.

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  Update (April 8, 2009 at 6:00 pm):  There are still 53 members of the House of Representatives yet to disclose their FY10 appropriations earmark requests.  For the database–click here (Version 5)

Update (April 8, 2009 at 1:00 pm):  We've heard from a few more offices.  Our most recent version of the database (version four) can be accessed here .

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Update (5:30 pm): W e've added disclosures from seven more offices.

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First Published April 7, 2009

More than 48 hours after the deadline to disclose earmark requests has passed, 71 lawmakers have yet to disclose their FY10 appropriations earmark requests.

TCS has poured through all the House member web sites and created a spreadsheet with all the disclosure web sites or documented which lawmakers do not request earmarks. The review was completed at about 1 AM this morning (so actually 56 hours after the 5PM Saturday deadline) and lawmakers may have updated their web pages since. TCS will continue to update as this database as more information becomes available.

The only thing consistent among the various web sites is inconsistency. Some lawmakers put a link to the disclosures right on the home page, while others bury their requests under an electronic rock, forcing constituents to click through several pages under legislation, district initiatives, issues or some other general category. Once you get to the disclosures themselves they take all manner of forms, from scores of actual letters to summary write-ups on the page. Some lawmakers have failed to include the requested amounts as directed. While others, like Reps. Kingston (R-GA), Driehaus (D-OH), and Rehberg (R-MT) have posted all the requests their office received rather than just what they decided to request of the Appropriations Committee, effectively obscuring the information from their constituents and contravening the spirit, if not the letter of the new rule.

Please take a look at your lawmakers requests and let us and the lawmaker know what you think.

Download the Database Here (version 9)