• Government Relations Services relating to educating the legislative branch about research and policy matters relating to the autism epidemic and the public policy crisis the epidemic represents. Discussion of the continued inclusion of mercury in medical products, unanswered research questions on the policy epidemic, and needed reforms to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund.

Duration: June 1, 2012 to December 31, 2013

General Issues: Health Issues

Spending: about $90,000 (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: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), State - Dept of (DOS), President of the U.S.