The only thing I would add is if a lobbyist filed a nil report, in essence, the commissioner could still ask a senior public office holder to verify that. I agree that you get to a certain point where, who is the commissioner going to ask? The only people they can ask are those people with whom the lobbyist has actually registered because they have to register who they're going to be contacting, on what issues they're going to be contacting. So it's in that sense that a nil report could be verified, if you will. I wouldn't go so far as to suggest there was some kind of onus on the public office holder. That doesn't go quite that far.
On June 12th, 2006. See this statement in context.