The filings were obtained on microfilm from the Secretary of the Senate s Office of Public Records. Identical reports are on file at the Clerk of the House s Legislative Resource Center. Year-end reports for 1998 were due on Feb. 16, 1999. Reports covering the first half of 1998 were due on Aug. 14, 1998. Late filings and amendments filed by mid-April 1998 were included in this report.
Data are subject to change as new amendments are filed.
In those cases, the Center treated the figure as zero. In cases where data appeared to contain errors, official Senate records were consulted and, when necessary, the Center telephoned lobbying organizations for clarification. The Center has standardized variations in names of individuals and organizations to clearly identify them and more accurately represent their total expenditures. In most cases, the Center attributed lobbying spending and campaign contributions of affiliates and subsidiaries to their parent organizations. Therefore, the lobbying totals reported by the Center for a parent organization may not reflect its original filing with the House and Senate but, rather, the combined expenditures of all related entities.