• Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program: Restoration of funding; program changes from the Jobs for Main Street Act of 2010; overall efficiency of loan guarantee processing
• Extension of direct payment for investment tax credits for renewable energy property in section 1603 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Duration: April 1, 2009 to July 31, 2010

General Issues: Energy/Nuclear, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Environmental/Superfund, Manufacturing, Science/Technology

Spending: about $67,000 (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, Energy - Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Treasury - Dept of, White House Office, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)