• Monitor FY 2015 Transportation-HUD Appropriations process and FTA Capital Investment Grants funding levels, MAP-21 reauthorization process and FTA Small Starts program, and developments with federal public-private partnership initiatives (HR 83 HR 4745 S2438)

Duration: April 1, 2014 to April 1, 2016

General Issues: Transportation

Spending: about $30,000 (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: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Transportation - Dept of (DOT)