• Healthcare

Duration: February 28, 2006 to present

General Issues: Health Issues, Energy/Nuclear, Budget/Appropriations, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)

Spending: about $45,723,355 (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 2006: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Agency for Health Care Policy & Research, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), White House Office, Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)