• Appropriations update; General update; Submitted appropriations to the House and Senate. Met with Schatz, Hirono, Case, and Tokuda
• Water Resources Development Act general update General update on disaster recovery
• General update on priorities and affordable housing

Duration: July 12, 2012 to present

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Disaster Planning/Emergencies, Housing, Transportation, Urban Development/Municipalities, Government Issues, Health Issues, Economics/Economic Development, Defense, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Postal, Environmental/Superfund, Natural Resources, Education, Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice

Spending: about $730,000 (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: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), White House Office, Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Army - Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Treasury - Dept of, Economic Development Administration, Labor - Dept of (DOL), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), State - Dept of (DOS), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), U.S. Postal Service (USPS), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Energy - Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Small Business Administration (SBA), Interior - Dept of (DOI), Federal Highway Administration (FHA), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Education - Dept of, U.S. Senate,, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA),, Justice - Dept of (DOJ)