• medical innovation; access to medicines; NIH funding

Duration: June 9, 2009 to February 29, 2012

General Issues: Health Issues, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Budget/Appropriations, Economics/Economic Development, Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Science/Technology, Education, Immigration

Spending: about $1,100,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2009: Food & Drug Administration (FDA), House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)

Affiliated organizations: PhRMA