Thanks to Pelosi's request in June, the Statement of Disbursements are available online for the first time:
Because of the procedural complexity inherent in balancing hundreds of Congressional budgets, the SOD document is not easy to read. The House's Office of Financial Counseling processes, on average, over 4000 expenses per week. The process generally works as follows:
A vendor may bill an office for goods and/or services, at which time the office's Financial Administrator will prepare a voucher and provide supporting documentation or an employee in a Member's office purchases a good or service, adhering to the rules laid out by the CHA in the Member's Congressional Handbook.
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