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• Read the article.

• Read the data appendix.

• Read more complete versions of Tables 1 and 2 that provide the full numbers of lobby registrations by time period; we had to cut out some of the detail for reasons of space in the published version.

• Download a Stata dataset containing all our data for analysis in this paper.

• Download a set of Stata commands that can be used in a do-file to replicate the analysis in this paper.

• Find out more about the Lobby Disclosure Reports from the US Senate web site.

• Read the instructions that explain who has to fill out these forms and what is included.

• View a blank form showing what the disclosure reports look like.

• View some examples of completed disclosure reports, to see what the original forms from which our database is built are like.