• FY2011 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill and FY2011 Commerce/Justice/Science Appropriations bill, funding for intelligent video surveillance and search technologies.
• FY2011 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill and FY2011 Commerce/Justice/Science Appropriations bill, funding for intelligent video surveillance and search technologies. Marketing of intelligent video surveillance and search technologies.

Duration: October 9, 2009 to January 31, 2010

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Homeland Security, Intelligence and Surveillance, Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice, Defense

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