• Pursuing legislation and funds to expand the identification and education of blind and deaf childrin and the use of available technology by the blind, the deaf and those with low vision and hearing loss. Pursuit of grants with Federal agencies.

Duration: April 15, 2014 to July 1, 2015

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Health Issues, Defense, Education, Agriculture

Spending: about $20,000 (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 2014: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Education - Dept of, Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH),