• HR 2216 Military Construction/Veterans Appropriations bill, FY 2014 and Senate bill HR 2397 Defense Appropriations Bill, FY 2014 and Senate bill HR 1960/S 1197, National Defense Authorization, FY 2014 General issues relating to renewable energy and solar structures.

Duration: November 15, 2012 to October 30, 2013

General Issues: Energy/Nuclear, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $120,000 (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 2012: Defense - Dept of (DOD), Energy - Dept of, Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), House of Representatives, U.S. Senate,, U.S. Senate, Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA),, State - Dept of (DOS)