• Continued online research was conducted in regards to flaws and places to build the United States state/federal system. This research was securely displayed on social media platform twitter.com.

Duration: March 31, 2017 to March 15, 2019

General Issues: Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice, Insurance, Science/Technology, Budget/Appropriations, Energy/Nuclear, Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation, Constitution, Immigration, Accounting, Advertising, Agriculture, Alcohol & Drug Abuse, Apparel/Clothing Industry/Textiles, Arts/Entertainment, Banking, Bankruptcy, Clean Air & Water (Quality), Commodities (Big Ticket), Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV, Consumer Issues/Safety/Protection, Defense, Disaster Planning/Emergencies, District of Columbia, Economics/Economic Development, Education, Environmental/Superfund, Family Issues/Abortion/Adoption, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Firearms/Guns/Ammunition, Foreign Relations, Government Issues, Health Issues, Homeland Security, Housing, Indian/Native American Affairs, Intelligence and Surveillance, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Media (Information/Publishing), Medicare/Medicaid, Minting/Money/Gold Standard, Natural Resources, Pharmacy, Religion, Retirement, Small Business, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Veterans, Welfare, Urban Development/Municipalities, Aerospace, Automotive Industry, Tobacco, Fuel/Gas/Oil, Manufacturing, Chemicals/Chemical Industry, Sports/Athletics, Unemployment, Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear), Food Industry (Safety, Labeling, etc.), Computer Industry, Railroads, Transportation, Roads/Highway, Torts, Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Aviation/Aircraft/Airlines

Spending: about $0 (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, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), President of the U.S., Vice President of the U.S., Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), White House Office, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Voice of America, Executive Office of the President (EOP), U.S. Secret Service, Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Office of the Vice President of the United States, Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Defense Special Weapons Agency, Army - Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)