As Anne Weissman notes below, there are more records of Jack Abramoff's visits to the White House. We just don't have them -- yet.

In the meantime, we have put the visitor records that we do have from the White House on line at www.governmentdocs.org, the recently launched online government document database, This link will take you to a search of "Abramoff" and "NARA" (National Archives and Records Administration). You can check the records for yourself.

And, as soon as the new documents are forthcoming, we'll upload them, too.

The Associated Press did a follow up article on the Department of Education's investigation of federal spending on Neil Bush's Ignite! Learning. The New York Times first reported on the investigation in yesterday's paper.

That investigation provides a backdrop to the launch of our new website, governmentdocs.org. As noted below, CREW is previewing that site at 11 a.m today. Browse, search and review all the documents CREW has received from the Department of Education relating to contacts between three Education offices and specified individuals, products or entities associated with Ignite! Learning. The documents can be found here.

The new government document research website, www.governmentdocs.org, will be previewed today at 11 a.m.   The site is already generating interest from the media including this profile in The Hill:

A coalition of watchdog groups will launch an online document database Thursday that will make results of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests easily searchable, browsed and reviewed. 

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the Sunlight Foundation, Public Citizen and the Electronic Frontier Foundation all contributed documents to the site, governmentdocs.org . Their goal was to create a central database of government documents as a way to promote greater transparency into the government’s inner workings.

CREW is perhaps best known for its list of the most corrupt members of Congress, which it put out in January 2006 and revised later that year after several more corruption cases against lawmakers were uncovered.

The call-in number for the 11 a.m. preview teleconference is  866.211.5938.

Tomorrow, CREW, in conjunction with a coalition of government watchdog groups, is launching a new online government document database, governmentdocs.org. We'll be previewing the new site in a tele-news conference, tomorrow, Thursday, November 8 at 11:00 AM.

The call-in number is 866.211.5938.

We are very excited about this new program, which truly revolutionizes and facilitates research of government documents. The database will house Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) responses, and other government documents, from a number of organizations, that can be browsed, searched and reviewed. It is the only one of its kind.

As of today, organizations including CREW, Project on Government Oversight, Public Citizen, Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation have contributed documents to the site. The goal of the database is to create a central repository of government documents, promoting greater transparency into the inner-workings of our government.

Traditionally, government watchdog groups have either posted FOIA documents on their websites as unsearchable PDFs, or statically highlighted several pages within a document to bolster their findings. This has historically limited the public's access to FOIA documents, and minimizes the opportunities for use by researchers, journalists and citizen reviewers for further research and disclosures. Governmentdocs.org changes that:

• Each and every document goes through an optical character recognition (OCR) process, so that the text of each document is entirely searchable.

• A powerful search engine provides full-text searches and hit highlighting.

• Citizen reviewers can add information to each document page and highlight important findings, allowing for more robust and targeted searches.

• Every page of every document has its own unique URL so that documents can be linked, shared, or posted onto websites.

• The database is a coalition effort, so all of the organizations’ documents will be housed on governmentdocs.org and searches will work across collections.

The Sunlight Foundation generously supported the creation of the site.