More than a year has passed since we last checked on this promise, and it's no closer to being fulfilled.

"They've talked about a unified influence database, and that just hasn't happened," said John Wonderlich, policy director for the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to government transparency.

One small sign of progress has come in the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS), which was not previously accessible to the public and now is. Legislation passed last year made it open to the public; records entered since April 15, 2011, are available. The system includes the track record and performance of federal contractors, but it doesn't contain information on contractor lobbying expenditures or campaign contributions.

"It does not talk about lobbyists. It doesn't talk about money," said Scott Amey, with the independent Project on Government Oversight. "We've been pushing that they create some kind of system that would combine money and campaigns and federal spending. We've always talked about a one-stop shop."

The closest thing to such a one-stop shop is at the Sunlight Foundation. Their project, InfluenceExplorer.com, pulls information from various government sources to provide "an overview of campaign finance, lobbying, earmark, contractor misconduct and federal spending data."

Type in the name of a corporation, and you can see which candidates it has donated to and how much it has spent on lobbyists. Likewise, look up the name of contributor and see where his or her money is going.

But Wonderlich says it's no replacement for the government doing this itself. An outside group has no power to mandate how information is disclosed and how well it stays updated, he said.

Wonderlich said Sunlight stays in touch with White House officials about the administration's promised database.

"I know they haven't forgotten about it," he said.

Obama made transparency and openness in government a major part of his platform during the campaign. Creating this influence database was one of his specific pledges toward that goal. Unless and until some action is taken, we rate this a Promise Broken.