• The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)

Duration: January 6, 2009 to October 31, 2017

General Issues: Education, Medicare/Medicaid, Budget/Appropriations, Health Issues, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Veterans, Unemployment, Arts/Entertainment

Spending: about $556,544 (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, Education - Dept of, Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Education - Dept of,, Social Security Administration (SSA), Natl Foundation on the Arts & Humanities, Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA),, Employment & Training Administration, Natl Endowment for the Arts, U.S. Senate,