• HR 1540, S 1867 and Conference Report - FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Act; House Report 112-331 - FY 2012 Omnibus Appropriations bill --- authorization and appropriation for Operations and Maintenance (O&M) funding and policy regarding repair and reset of equipment returning from the USCENTCOM AOR.

Duration: June 1, 2011 to January 1, 2012

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Defense

Spending: about $120,000 (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: