• The Passaic Valley Water Commission, NJ submitted two (2) Appropriation Requests for the FY2011 cycle. Our company spoke on behalf of the commission to the Offices of Congressman Bill Pascrell, Congressman Steve Rothman and both New Jersey Senate offices; Bob Menendez and Frank Lautenberg in favor of the projects and to ask that the offices include the projects in their list of Appropriation Requests for FY2011.

Duration: May 1, 2009 to December 30, 2011

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Homeland Security

Spending: about $5,000 (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