Database to explore conflicts of interest through financial disclosures

ProPublica has been collecting thousands of disclosure documents, and they made a searchable database with the processed information.

Most political appointees and senior officials in the executive branch are required by law to file public financial disclosure reports. These are documents that detail their financial holdings, positions they hold outside government, their spouse’s holdings, their liabilities and their recent financial transactions (such as buying or selling stock) during a defined reporting period.

You can currently see the assets for the president and his 1,573 appointees, along with their roles outside government and compensation.