Texas PACS: A Roundup of the Special Interests
Driving Texas' Political Action Committees
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12 Interest Categories
| Expenditures | % of | PAC | |
| Interest Category | '95-'97 | Total | # |
| Agriculture | $1,327,064 | 2% | 26 |
| Communications & Electronics | $2,210,632 | 4% | 29 |
| Construction | $3,078,534 | 6% | 67 |
| Energy & Natural Resources | $6,005,540 | 11% | 79 |
| Finance, Insurance & Real Estate | $8,698,781 | 16% | 107 |
| Health | $4,121,182 | 7% | 66 |
| Lawyers & Lobbyists | $6,873,385 | 12% | 47 |
| Miscellaneous Business | $2,257,663 | 4% | 66 |
| Transportation | $2,592,595 | 5% | 30 |
| Labor | $2,557,336 | 5% | 93 |
| Ideological/Single-Issue | $15,999,423 | 29% | 311 |
| Unclassified | $202,897 | <1% | 53 |
| Total | $55,925,032 | 100% | 974 |
This report classifies the $56 million in Texas PAC expenditures into 12 primary economic or ideological categories. Significantly, nine of these categories represent expenditures by private-sector, strictly business PACs. All together, the 517 PACs in these nine business categories spent $37 million, or 66 percent of all PAC spending. These categories are analyzed in greater detail below, following a sneak preview of the biggest PACs in Texas.
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