• Monitor S. 1405, the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2017; H.R. 2879, the FLIGHT Act of 2017; H.R. 3353, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2018; and H.R. 3354, the Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act of 2018; encourage support for developing standards to approve lap-held infant safety restraints.

Duration: May 1, 2013 to January 1, 2018

General Issues: Aviation/Aircraft/Airlines

Spending: about $230,000 (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 2013: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Natl Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Small Business Adminstration (SBA)