• amending 1984 telecommunications law regarding PEG fees

Duration: November 1, 2007 to January 4, 2016

General Issues: Telecommunications, Transportation, Economics/Economic Development, Energy/Nuclear, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice, Small Business, Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV, Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation, Budget/Appropriations, Housing, Education, Clean Air & Water (Quality), Roads/Highway, Urban Development/Municipalities

Spending: about $180,000 (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: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Economic Development Administration, Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Federal Highway Administration (FHA), Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Energy - Dept of, Natl Science Foundation (NSF), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Small Business Adminstration (SBA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),, Economic Development Administration,, Bureau of Reclamation, White House Office, Interior - Dept of (DOI), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Education - Dept of, Labor - Dept of (DOL), Natl Endowment for the Arts, Army - Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD),, Y Y