• HR 4757 - Bill to Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to Expand Certain Exceptions to the Private Activity Bond Rules for First Time Farmers, and for other purposes. The sponsor is Tom Latham R-IA. Beginning Farmer Loan Program.

Duration: August 8, 2007 to January 1, 2019

General Issues: Agriculture, Immigration, Health Issues, Foreign Relations, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Budget/Appropriations, Small Business, Banking, Homeland Security, Insurance, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Government Issues

Spending: about $208,000 (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 2007: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Labor - Dept of (DOL), State - Dept of (DOS), Administration for Children & Families (ACF), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS),, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury - Dept of, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS), U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Small Business Adminstration (SBA), U.S. Information Agency (USIA), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA),, Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Social Security Administration (SSA), Treasury - Dept of,, Agency for Health Care Policy & Research, Employment & Training Administration, Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), White House Office