There is some variation among the categories about what they have to declare when they do the re-registration. Part of it was just to make sure that the data has some integrity.
Along with the renewal is the idea of telling us when you quit, if you're no longer on the assignment. If we look at the statistics and we graph them from the period 1996 to around 2004, there's a very suspicious straight line of consultant lobbyists. We terminated everyone when we started the new amendments to the act last year, and the lobbyists that were sort of here on the graph, if you will, were the same as they were here. What this delta was underneath this curve was all the lobbyists that didn't bother to de-register.
Part of the reason for keeping it at every six months that people have to check in is just to make sure that the registry is up to date and accurate, because the evidence has shown an awful lot of lobbyists that just said, well, I'm done--and this was in the hundreds--and they weren't, so they looked like they were active.