WASHINGTON–The biggest expense of the House of Representatives is on salaries and benefits, a Sunlight Foundation study found.
Sunlight, a non-partisan organization dedicated to making government more transparent, crunched reports by House members to provide a comparative snapshot on spending, with some provisos, detailed at the click.
Sunlight’s 2010 disbursements for Illinois House delegation PDF here:
2010 Illinois Delegation House Member Office Spending
source: The Sunlight Foundation
IL-1Bobby Rush$1,491,881.02
IL-2Jesse Jackson, Jr.$1,351,380.26
IL-3Daniel Lipinski$1,379,394.00
IL-4Luis Gutierrez$1,423,412.40
IL-5Mike Quigley$1,395,657.31
IL-6Peter Roskam$1,353,840.06
IL-7Danny Davis$1,519,836.70
IL-8Melissa Bean$1,408,763.52
IL-9Jan Schakowsky$1,410,581.72
IL-10Mark Kirk$1,189,176.23
IL-11Debbie Halvorson$1,476,054.87
IL-12Jerry Costello$1,324,138.74
IL-13Judy Biggert$1,481,968.15
IL-14Bill Foster$1,476,717.77
IL-15Tim Johnson$1,281,785.35
IL-16Donald Manzullo$1,250,486.17
IL-17Phil Hare$1,464,500.30
IL-18Aaron Schock$1,301,568.50
IL-19John Shimkus$1,346,342.51
The fine print…..
2010 Spending by Member
source: http://data.sunlightlabs.com/Government/2010-House-Disbursements-Summary/3en9-k2nq
How the numbers were crunched and how best to review the figures: http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/2011/update-house-disbursements-few-notes-how-use-data/
A users guide to the Sunlight research: It’s best to use Sunlight’s Summary Report <a href="”> database when looking for aggregate spending figures and use Sunlight’s Detailed Report <a href="”> database when looking at specific expenditures –travel, salaries for individual congressional staffers, ect.
Sunlight’s 2010 disbursements for Illinois House delegation PDF here: