• H.R. 4909, S. 2943, National Defense Authorization Act for FY2017 - available travel for certain veterans.
• H.R. 4909, to establish a space-available transportation priority for veterans of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected, permanent disability rated as total. S. 2943, to permit veterans who have a service-connected, permanent disability rated as total to travel on military aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent as retired members of the Armed Forces enlisted to such travel.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to October 1, 2016

General Issues: Foreign Relations, Defense, Budget/Appropriations, Medicare/Medicaid, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $320,000 (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 2008: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, U.S. Senate,, Natl Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),, Library of Congress (LOC), White House Office, Natl Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)