Seeking congressional oversight of circimstances leading to a decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs allowing the National Acquisitiona Strategy (NAS) Contract for Vocational Rehabilitqtion and Education (VR&E) Services to lapse at the end of the base year rather than exercising its first year option or going forward with a 6-month contract extension with the prime contractors.
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,, House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Defense - Dept of (DOD)
Bills mentioned
H.R.3082: Continuing Appropriations and Surface Transportation Extensions Act, 2011
Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.
Dep. Staff Dir. House Armed Services Comm.
Chief Counsel & Staff Dir. House VA Comm.
Minority Counsel & Staff Dir. House VA Comm.
Leg. Director, Hon. Bob Stump
Chief Counsel & Staff Dir. House VA Comm..
Disclosures Filed
Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.
Termination
Q3 Report
Q2 Report
Q1 Report
Registration
Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate