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During 2011, 2,908 clients paid 1,836 lobbyists up to $345 million to influence government decision making, according to TPJ’s biennial analysis of Texas lobby spending. Led by Energy Future Holdings Corp., Energy and Natural Resources clients spent more on lobbying than any other industry. Who are the biggest lobbyists and lobby clients? Find out in Austin’s Oldest Profession.
Special interests spent up to $344 million on Texas lobbying contracts in 2009, a slight dip from the $348 million that they spent in the previous legislative year (2007). This marks the only time in a decade when lobby spending did not skyrocket from one legislative year to another, according to the new edition of TPJ's biennial analysis of the Texas lobby.
Special interests spent up to $348 million on Texas state lobby contracts in 2007, doubling what they spent ten years earlier and increasing spending 15 percent over the preceding legislative year of 2005. The corporate takeover of TXU challenged top spender AT&T for the lobby title.
Special interests in Texas - which leads the nation in lobby spending according to one measure - spent up to $304 million on state lobby contracts in 2005, a 10 percent increase from the preceding 2003 legislative year, according to a new Texans For Public Justice study.
A new TPJ report reveals that lobby spending in Texas--which leads the nation when considering the top value of all lobbying contracts--rose by $45.9 million dollars from the 2001 legislative year compared with 2003. The top value of lobby contracts in 2003 was $276 million, a 20 percent increase over the $230 million in contracts in 2001. In just the first half of 2004, lobby spending exceeds the total spent in 2002 by $10 million.
Lobby spending in Texas--which is second only to California in the number of clients who hire state government lobbyists--rose 33 percent from 1995 through 2001, a new study found. During this seven-year period, special interests spent a total of up to $1.3 billion to lobby Texas officials, including a record of up to $230 million in 2001--the year of the most recent legislative session.
A new study found that 1,700 different special interests will spend up to $180 million to influence Texas politics during the 1999 Legislative session. The cost of these special-interest lobby tricks is up 19 percent over what the lobby spent during the 1997 legislative session, according to the study, Austin's Oldest Profession: Texas' Top Lobby Clients and Those Who Service Them.
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