• International trade, taxation and investment on manufacturing sector of the United States

Duration: May 22, 2012 to December 19, 2016

General Issues: Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Accounting, Economics/Economic Development, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Banking, Defense, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $0 (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: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Bureau of Export Administration, Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Federal Reserve System, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Air Force - Dept of, Army - Dept of (Other) , Energy - Dept of, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Government Accountability Office (GAO), Overseas Private Investment Corp (OPIC), U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Army - Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Defense Finance & Accounting Agency (DFAS), Food & Drug Administration (FDA)