• Transportation-HUD FY15 Appropriations Bill; Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies FY15 Appropriations Bill; Homeland Security FY15 Appropriations Bill; Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies FY15 Appropriations Bill

Duration: October 1, 2010 to February 28, 2015

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $188,000 (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: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Army - Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Economic Development Administration, Federal Highway Administration (FHA), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), U.S. Senate,