• On S.178, we lobbied for the inclusion of infrastructure grant funding for tertiary care facilities with high numbers of COVID-19 patients and to further public health emergency preparedness.

Duration: January 26, 2017 to December 31, 2020

General Issues: Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Health Issues, Veterans, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $120,000 (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 2017: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Office of Management & Budget (OMB)