• Issues related to FY10 funding for economic development projects in the following Departments: Education, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Energy.
• Issues related to funding for the arts available from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (H.R.1), including broadband stimulus funding, energy efficiency funding and economic development funding. Work related to broadband stimulus funding application.

Duration: January 26, 2009 to January 1, 2010

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Economics/Economic Development

Spending: about $130,000 (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 2009: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, White House Office, Education - Dept of, Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Energy - Dept of, Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Natl Endowment for the Arts, Economic Development Administration

Affiliated organizations: Woodruff Arts Center