One of the unsung heroes in the nation’s capital is Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation. Bill is a former investigative reporter and has for the past three years at Sunlight been a leader in the trans-partisan movement for greater transparency and accountability in government.

He didn’t get much sleep Tuesday night because he spent most of it tracking down what every current member of the U.S. Senate did to satisfy a requirement that they post their earmark rquests on their official web sites. The rules don’t say how those requests are to be formatted, so, as Allison found in doing the same exercise with House members, there are almost as many ways to post senators’ earmarks as there are senators.