
Reporting Tools
Tracking Legislator Activity Template
Use this template to track the actions and activity of elected officials at the state or federal level. The sheets allow you to track legislation they have been involved in, committee assignments, their connections to lobbyists, and interactions with major donors.
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Sunlight Research Center
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Reporting Tools
Reporting Recipe: Finding overlap in congressional candidates' campaign finance records
This reporting recipe explains how we automated the process of downloading campaign committees’ fundraising and spending records to find overlap among multiple candidates’ donors and recipients.
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Sunlight Research Center
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Reporting Tools
Reporting Recipe: PPP Loans
The U.S. Small Business Administration backed and distributed PPP loans to help businesses keep their workforce employed during the COVID-19 crisis from April 2020 to May 2021. The following is a step-by-step guide you can use to identify PPP loans to political candidates, their businesses and their spouses.
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Sunlight Research Center
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Reporting Tools