• Educating decision makers about their emergency management and business continuity solutions.

Duration: October 15, 2007 to March 31, 2011

General Issues: Homeland Security, Government Issues

Spending: about $90,000 (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: Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, AMTRAK - Natl Railroad Passenger Corporation, Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), White House Office, Treasury - Dept of, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Natl Security Agency (NSA), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), Defense - Dept of (DOD)