• Contractual Issue with FEMA. - Spoke to Congressman Pascrell's Staff. FEMA broke a contract with Medina Consultants due to a change in the procurement process. We are assisting Medina Consultants in trying to have FEMA honor their exsisting contract. Breaking the contract would result in major financial hardship for company.

Duration: May 1, 2009 to December 31, 2010

General Issues: Government Issues, Environmental/Superfund, Accounting, Homeland Security, Defense

Spending: about $0 (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: House of Representatives, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), U.S. Senate