• Anti-human trafficking programs in the FY 18 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Act ; the FY 18 Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Act; the FY 18 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Act.

Duration: April 10, 2009 to January 1, 2018

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Foreign Relations, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace

Spending: about $1,270,000 (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: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), House of Representatives, Senate, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), State, Dept of (DOS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)