• Outreach to Senate offices on a community project funding request for equipment and information technology to provide free MRI brain scans to low income individuals and to research the efficacy of early detection in treating brain tumors.

Duration: February 1, 2008 to March 15, 2011

General Issues: Health Issues, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $36,000 (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: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives