• Followed and actively lobbied on the education reconciliation instructions to be implemented by the Education and Labor and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committees. This included H.R. 3221, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act and the Harkin Senate draft.
• Followed the Ways & Means and Finance Committees activity relating to private tax witholding.

Duration: February 2, 2009 to December 31, 2009

General Issues: Education, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Budget/Appropriations, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities

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 2009: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate,, U.S. Senate, White House Office, Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Federal Reserve System, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Treasury - Dept of