• Working with the federal government on information and data management and paper reduction.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008

General Issues: Government Issues

Spending: about $20,000 (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 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Treasury - Dept of, Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA),, Energy - Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), White House Office, Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Small Business Adminstration (SBA), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Education - Dept of