• Elementary and Secondary Education Act. FY2011/2012 appropriations funding, higher education, science, and technology legislation and funding, and working with federal agencies in areas that they have identified as priority areas. And in general, education, health and welfare funding, domestic and international.

Duration: January 27, 2011 to September 1, 2011

General Issues: Education

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 2011: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate