New York’s State Legislature spent $114 million during the six-month period ending last September, according to the latest legislative expenditure data posted at SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s transparency website. SeeThroughNY now includes four full years of legislative expenditures, in what has become the most extensive searchable database of its kind available to New Yorkers on the Internet.
The expenditure information can be sorted by reporting period, expenditure type, and member name. Users can also isolate spending for individual units of the legislature’s central staff.
Ranked by office expenditures, the top spenders in the Assembly were:
- Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan) – $431,683;
- Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) – $380,013;
- Catherine Nolan (D- Queens) – $341,720;
- Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) – $337,381 (not including Silver’s expenditures as Assembly Speaker); and
- Vito Lopez (D-Brooklyn) – $332,352.
The top spenders in the Senate were:
- Pedro Espada (D-Bronx) – $1,201,150;
- John Sampson (D-Brooklyn) – $884,466;
- Carl Kruger (D-Brooklyn) – $790,763;
- Jeffrey Klein (D-Bronx/Westchester) – $765,549; and
- Shirley Huntley (D-Jamaica) – $612,920.
For a copy of the individual members office rankings for the six-month period, click here.
To visit the legislative expenditure database, click here.
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