The amount of money spent on lobbying in New York state decreased 3.5 percent last year, according to the annual report of the New York State Commission on Public Integrity.

Lobbyists earned $167.8 million in 2009, down from $173.9 million the year before, according to the commission’s report released yesterday. The drop in expenditures, which experts attributed to the recession, was the first reported since 2000 and only the second decline in three decades.

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