New York’s State Legislature spent $105 million during the six-month period ending last March, according to the latest legislative expenditure data posted at SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s transparency website. SeeThroughNY includes expenditures dating back to October 1, 2006, 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) – $435,531;
• Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) – $330,047;
• Vito Lopez (D-Brooklyn) – $315,632;
• Robin Schimminger (D-Tonawanda) – $314,479; and
• Catherine Nolan (D-Queens) – $314,479.

The top spenders in the Senate were:

• Pedro Espada (D-Bronx) – $792,253;
• Carl Kruger (D-Brooklyn) – $650,099;
• John Sampson (D-Brooklyn) – $599,075;
• Jeffrey Klein (D-Bronx/Westchester) – $498,697; and
• Shirley Huntley (D-Queens) – $482,615.

For a copy of the individual members office rankings for the six-month period, click here.

To visit the legislative expenditure database, click here.