• high speed and intercity passenger rail funding; H.R.5972 and S.2322, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013
• high speed and intercity passenger rail funding, development, standards, and equipment procurement

Duration: July 1, 2012 to July 1, 2013

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Railroads, Transportation

Spending: about $30,000 (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: Executive Office of the President (EOP), Office of Management & Budget (OMB)