But the key is to get the candidates to disclose before the law forces them to. Young and Suo recommend approaching the most amenable campaign first.
"Peter DeFazio agreed on a Monday morning. Once I got him, it was like dominoes," Young recalled. "It was not hard to do it. I had it sewn up in one day."
Makinson promised to apply much of what he learned in the special Senate race to the 1996 elections. Contributions to presidential hopefuls and candidates for a few Senate seats will be likely subjects of pre-election scrutiny next year.