• Requested Senator Graham's office to include language in the FY13 Defense Appropriations Bill that would direct OSD to safeguard, under Title III, the domestic production of a crystalline material called KBBF that has potential use in numerous DOD weapons systems,

Duration: May 4, 2010 to October 31, 2014

General Issues: Defense, Homeland Security, Manufacturing, Energy/Nuclear

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 2010: U.S. Senate, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Defense - Dept of (DOD), House of Representatives, Office of the Secretary of Defense,, State - Dept of (DOS)