• Appropriations issues of importance to Adams County including funding related to commercial space port development, transportation, housing, and workforce development. American Recovery Act of 2021 programs, future COVID relief legislation, infrastructure legislation implementation. Community Project funding in FY 23 appropriations bills;

Duration: January 16, 2017 to March 31, 2022

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Transportation

Spending: about $760,000 (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, Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Interior - Dept of (DOI), Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), White House Office