The United States government generates an enormous volume of public documentation - roll call votes, financial disclosures, Inspector General investigations, Government Accountability Office audits, congressional hearing transcripts, court filings, and agency reports. That documentation is publicly available in law but practically inaccessible to most people: scattered across dozens of federal websites, buried in PDFs, written in bureaucratic language, and rarely assembled in a way that allows comparison across time or across administrations.

The CAN2026 Government Record assembles that documentation in one place, organized by subject, and linked to primary sources. It is a permanent, expanding archive with no fixed scope - it will grow to cover as many administrations, Congresses, officials, and events as the research supports. What is published here represents what has been completed and verified to date.

The archive is organized by record type. Vote Records document how individual members of Congress voted on specific legislation, including members who abstained or did not vote. Cabinet and Appointment Records document career histories, ethics investigations, confirmation votes, Inspector General findings, and formal complaints filed against senior officials. Donor Records document campaign finance disclosures as reported to the Federal Election Commission. Case Files document specific events - deaths, accountability failures, abuses of power - where the full evidentiary record has not previously been assembled in a single place. Additional sections cover DOJ and FBI conduct, executive orders, congressional oversight activity, Inspector General findings, and GAO audit results.

Every record carries a research date and a full source list. Nothing here is opinion or analysis. The record is the record.

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CONGRESSIONAL VOTING RECORDS

This section documents how members of Congress have voted on significant legislation, organized by policy area. Each bill record includes the full vote breakdown by party and chamber, individual member votes, and context for what the legislation would have done or did. The record currently covers climate and environmental legislation. Additional policy areas - including healthcare, labor, gun safety, and others - are being added as the project grows. This is a living record, not a complete one. Votes are sourced to official congressional records. Not voting is documented alongside yes and no votes. Inaction is part of the record.

THE SUPREME COURT

The Supreme Court of the United States is the final interpreter of federal constitutional and statutory law. Its decisions bind every court, every legislature, and every government official in the country. There is no appeal from a Supreme Court ruling on a constitutional question - only a future Court can overturn one, or Congress can act by statute or constitutional amendment where the ruling permits it.

The Court consists of nine justices appointed for life by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The current Court (May 2026) has a 6-3 conservative majority: Roberts (George W. Bush), Thomas (George H.W. Bush), Alito (George W. Bush), Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett (all Trump Term 1) form the majority; Sotomayor and Kagan (Obama) and Jackson (Biden) are the dissenting three.

The decisions in this record span October Terms 2008 through 2025 - the full Obama, Trump Term 1, and Biden administrations plus the first year of Trump's second term. This period encompasses the most significant reshaping of constitutional doctrine in generations, including the overruling of Roe v. Wade, the elimination of Chevron deference, the creation of presidential criminal immunity, and major restructuring of Second Amendment law, voting rights enforcement, affirmative action, and the power of independent federal agencies.

Each entry identifies what the Court actually held, what prior law it changed or overruled, the real-world effect, and the full justice lineup. The administration tag identifies which president's nominees formed the majority - not who was in office when the case was decided. Pending cases describe what is at stake, not what the Court has decided.

WHO FUND CONGRESS

Federal election law requires campaigns, party committees, and political action committees to disclose contributions above certain thresholds to the Federal Election Commission. This section documents those disclosures for key members of Congress, Senate leadership, and officials whose donor records are relevant to their voting history or policy positions. Records include contribution amounts, donor names, employer or industry affiliation, and contribution cycle. The data is drawn directly from FEC filings. The archive currently covers Senate and House leadership and competitive 2026 races and will expand as additional records are completed.

HOW OFFICIALS ARE PAID

This section documents the full financial picture of federal public service - what officials are paid while in office, what they receive when they leave, and what they go on to earn afterward. It covers the President, Vice President, cabinet secretaries, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, and senior career officials. The active salary section explains a structural anomaly most people are unaware of: cabinet secretaries have two salary figures - the statutory rate published by the government and the lower frozen rate they actually receive, a gap created by Congress and renewed annually since 2014. The retirement section covers the federal pension system, congressional pensions, the Supreme Court's salary-for-life provision, and the full taxpayer-funded package available to former presidents. The outside income section documents what officials are permitted to earn beyond their government salary, including an investment income exemption that places no limit on passive wealth accumulation while in office. The member financial profiles section draws on the annual financial disclosure reports that federal law requires officials to file, showing who the wealthiest current members are, what they hold, and the documented pattern of stock trades with questions about timing. The wealth accumulation section examines how congressional net worth has grown relative to the average American household over four decades. The final sections document what former officials have earned after leaving government, including speaking fees, private equity roles, lobbying firm positions, and board seats, alongside the legal restrictions that govern the transition and where those restrictions have gaps. All figures are sourced to official government pay records, legally required financial disclosure filings, and verified investigative reporting.

CABINET AND APPOINTMENTS

This section documents the backgrounds, confirmation records, and conduct of cabinet officials and intelligence heads across presidential administrations. Each record covers career history, educational background, confirmation vote by member name, criminal record, ethics investigations, Office of Government Ethics findings, Inspector General findings, conflicts of interest, and formal complaints filed by congressional members or watchdog organizations. All claims are sourced to primary public documents. The same categories are applied to every official regardless of party or administration. The archive currently covers four administrations and will expand as additional records are completed.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS

Executive orders are directives issued by the president that carry the force of federal law without requiring congressional approval. They can establish policy, reorganize agencies, direct enforcement priorities, or reverse the orders of prior administrations. This section documents major executive orders issued across administrations on climate, energy, public lands, environmental regulation, and related subjects - what each order directed, what authority it invoked, what prior policy it replaced or reversed, and where applicable, how courts have responded. Records are sourced to the Federal Register and primary legal and policy analysis. The archive will expand as additional records are completed.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

The Attorney General is the head of the Department of Justice and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States. The position oversees all federal prosecution, the FBI, the DEA, the ATF, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Bureau of Prisons, and the Civil Rights Division. The AG sets national prosecution priorities, issues binding legal guidance to federal agencies, controls which cases the federal government pursues and which it declines, and determines how broadly or narrowly federal law is enforced. The office also oversees the Foreign Agents Registration Act, federal civil rights enforcement, antitrust prosecution, and the conduct of federal investigations. Because the AG controls what the federal government investigates and prosecutes, the independence or non-independence of the office from White House direction is among the most consequential structural questions in American governance. This section documents who has held the office across three administrations, their confirmation votes, key policy actions, documented ethics findings, and the circumstances of their departures. Sources are drawn from DOJ official records, Inspector General reports, congressional testimony, and verified investigative reporting. The archive will expand as additional records are completed.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducts background investigations and security clearance adjudications for presidential nominees, White House staff, and senior positions across the intelligence community. These investigations are not required by law - they are a practice established by President Eisenhower and governed entirely by executive agreements that any administration can modify or bypass. The FBI's role is formally subordinate to the White House: the Bureau initiates background work only at the White House's request, and the scope of any investigation is set and controlled by the White House Counsel's Office, not the FBI. The Senate has no legal authority to direct the FBI to investigate additional leads or expand its scope.

This section documents how background investigation and security clearance practices have functioned across three administrations - where the standard process was followed, where it was modified, where career adjudicators were overruled, and where the process was bypassed entirely. It covers: the standard SF-86 process and what it does and does not investigate; security clearance tiers from Confidential through TS/SCI; the 30+ clearance overrides documented in the Trump first term including the Kushner case; the Kavanaugh supplemental investigation and how the White House controlled its scope; Biden-era practices; and the Trump second term departures including the transition refusal to sign the standard pre-inauguration FBI agreement, the January 20, 2025 blanket TS/SCI memorandum, the March 2025 halt of FBI background checks for White House staff, the revocation of 53+ clearances targeting political opponents and former officials, and FBI Director Patel's waiver of polygraph requirements for his own appointees while directing polygraphs at career staff. All findings are sourced to primary White House documents, Senate Judiciary Committee records, FBI policy documents, and verified investigative reporting.

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE

The Government Accountability Office is the nonpartisan investigative and auditing arm of Congress. It reviews how federal agencies spend public money, whether programs achieve their stated objectives, where fraud and waste are occurring, and whether agencies are complying with the law. GAO publishes approximately 1,300 reports per year and has documented more than $1.45 trillion in financial benefits to the federal government since 2002. This section documents GAO's major findings across administrations - audit results, High Risk List designations, recommendation compliance rates by agency and administration, improper payment findings, and GAO's assessment of programs and systems the federal government itself has identified as most vulnerable to failure. Sources are drawn directly from GAO-published reports and testimony. The archive will expand as additional records are completed.

INSPECTORS GENERAL

Each major federal agency contains an Office of Inspector General - a statutorily independent body responsible for investigating waste, fraud, abuse, and misconduct within that agency and reporting findings to Congress and the public. This section documents significant IG findings across federal agencies, the institutional status of IG offices across administrations, and the record of IG firings, vacancies, and interference. Sources include IG reports published on agency websites, congressional testimony by IGs, and GAO analysis of IG independence and effectiveness. The archive will expand as additional records are completed.

CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT

Congress has constitutional authority to investigate the executive branch through its committees - issuing subpoenas, compelling testimony, demanding documents, and referring matters for prosecution. This section documents the exercise of that authority across administrations - which investigations were opened, which subpoenas were issued, which were complied with, which were defied, which resulted in contempt proceedings, and which were never issued despite documented grounds for investigation. The record of congressional oversight includes both what Congress investigated and what it chose not to investigate. Sources include committee reports, hearing transcripts, subpoena records, and GAO and IG findings. The archive will expand as additional records are completed.

ICE CASE FILES

This section documents specific events where the public record - court filings, Inspector General reports, FOIA-obtained documents, congressional testimony, and investigative reporting - establishes a detailed factual record that has not previously been assembled in a single sourced document. Case files cover deaths in federal custody, accountability failures, abuses of power, and other events where the gap between the official account and the documented evidence is significant enough to warrant a full record. Each case file identifies what happened, what the official account stated, what the available evidence shows, and what accountability proceedings - if any - have occurred. The ICE Deaths and Accountability Failures record, covering 2003 to 2026, is the first case file published. Additional case files are in production

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