• Educating Members of Congress regarding the impact of certain visa fee increases; monitor development of immigration reform legislation; support for H.R. 3012: Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act.
• Educate Members of Congress regarding STEM efforts.
• Support for H.R. 1834: Freedom to Invest Act of 2011; H.R. 2735: Legislation to make permanent the tax rule exempting dividends, interest, rents, and royalties received or accrued from certain controlled foreign corporations; support for S. 1671: Foreign Earnings Reinvestment Act.

Duration: April 1, 2011 to September 1, 2012

General Issues: Immigration, Education, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Computer Industry

Spending: about $320,000 (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 2011: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate,, U.S. Senate