• Seeking federal support for road and water infrastructure improvements; Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2011 (S. 135), making the moratorium on Internet taxes permanent; Three Percent (3%) Withholding Requirement (H.R. 674), provisions related to withholding tax for goods and services; Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2011 (H.R. 1309) and Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act, provisions related to multi-year extension of National Flood Insurance Program; Surface Transportation and Air Extension Act of 2011 (H.R. 2887), provisions related to maintaining formula allocations for surface transportation programs; Building American Jobs Act of 2011 (H.R. 992) and Transportation and Regional Infrastructure Project Bonds Act of 2011 (S. 1436), provisions related to taxable bonds issued by states and local governments; Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill (H.R. 2017), provisions related to the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) and state/local programs.

Duration: March 2, 2009 to January 1, 2012

General Issues: Urban Development/Municipalities

Spending: about $170,000 (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, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD)