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Duration: January 11, 2010 to January 1, 2012

General Issues: Accounting, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Government Issues, Banking, Small Business

Spending: about $50,000 (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 2010: House of Representatives, Energy - Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Interior - Dept of (DOI), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Treasury - Dept of, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), Federal Highway Administration (FHA), U.S. Senate, Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC), Financial Management Service (FMS), Natl Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB),, Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Education - Dept of, Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank), Social Security Administration (SSA), Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Bureau of the Public Debt, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), General Services Administration (GSA), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), State - Dept of (DOS), Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Treasury - Dept of,