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III. 2002 PAC Spending By Interest Category
After the Ideological and Single-Issue
sector the largest interest categories were Lawyers & Lobbyists, Energy
& Natural Resources, Health, Construction and Real Estate.
| Interest Category | No. of Active
2002 PACs |
Spending |
| Agriculture | 34 | $1,825,611 |
| Communications | 17 | $1,738,672 |
| Construction | 81 | $4,717,165 |
| Electronics | 8 | $548,038 |
| Energy & Natural Resources | 76 | $7,649,366 |
| Finance | 42 | $3,760,656 |
| Health | 59 | $4,850,618 |
| Ideological | 305 | $33,466,788 |
| Insurance | 25 | $2,009,575 |
| Labor | 97 | $3,776,290 |
| Lawyers & Lobbyists | 51 | $11,196,921 |
| Miscellaneous Business | 59 | $2,581,796 |
| Real Estate | 38 | $4,127,857 |
| Transportation | 27 | $2,994,400 |
| Unknown | 45 | $76,473 |
| TOTAL | 964 | $85,320,226 |
