• Disability Employment Issues

Duration: June 10, 2008 to January 5, 2015

General Issues: Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Unemployment, Health Issues, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice, Medicare/Medicaid, Budget/Appropriations, Education, Government Issues, Transportation, Veterans

Spending: about $17,500 (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 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Administration for Children & Families (ACF), Agency for Health Care Policy & Research, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Economic Development Administration, Education - Dept of, Employment Standards Administration, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Veterans Employment & Training Service, Labor - Dept of (DOL), Employment & Training Administration, Social Security Administration (SSA), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Small Business Adminstration (SBA), Labor - Dept of (DOL),