• -Lobby activity around appropriations and community directed spending, including funding for research and higher education programs -Lobby activity around policy issues of higher education, including financial aid programs, work study, cooperative education, international students, and lifelong learning -Lobby activity on issues related to climate change and coastal sustainability policy and research -Lobby activity in support of federal research programs, NIH, DoD, NSF, NOAA, and DHS -Lobby activity related to workforce development programs -Lobby activity related to transportation and infrastructure funding -Lobby activity related to economic development programs
• -Lobby activity around appropriations and community directed spending, including funding for research and higher education programs
• Appropriations requests related to issue area.
• Appropriations requests related to issue area and lobbying activity related to workforce development programs.
• Appropriations requests related to issue area and lobbying activity related to federal research programs.

Duration: August 6, 2010 to present

General Issues: Education, Budget/Appropriations, Defense, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Science/Technology, Health Issues, Immigration, Economics/Economic Development, Environmental/Superfund, Homeland Security, Urban Development/Municipalities, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Energy/Nuclear

Spending: about $5,923,215 (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, House of Representatives, Education - Dept of, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Natl Science Foundation (NSF), Economic Development Administration, State - Dept of (DOS), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), White House Office, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Administration on Aging, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), Natl Security Agency (NSA), Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), Energy - Dept of, Senate, House of Representatives, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Education, Dept of