• Support and outreach related to institutions of higher education research funding in the FY 2021 appropriations bill and report.
• Funding for resilient infrastructure research.
• Traumatic brain injury research, funding, and outreach opportunities. Research related to emerging and infectious diseases.

Duration: February 2, 2016 to present

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Energy/Nuclear, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Agriculture, Veterans, Defense, Education

Spending: about $600,000 (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 2016: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Natl Science Foundation (NSF), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), State - Dept of (DOS), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Economic Development Administration