• Requesting full funding for the Dept. of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) H.R.3354- Interior and Environment, Agriculture and Rural Development, Commerce, Justice, Science, Financial Services and General Government, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, State and Foreign Operations, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Defense, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Legislative Branch, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2018 S. 1771- DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATION BILL, 2018

Duration: January 21, 2012 to present

May Have Ended?

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Trade (Domestic & Foreign)

Spending: about $557,500 (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: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Trade & Development Agency (TDA), Defense - Dept of (DOD), State - Dept of (DOS)