• Department of Defense procurement policies with regard to military dorm and quarters furniture, including concerns about DOD use of design build contracts that fail to use dorm and quarters from U.S. government schedule contracts that meet the specifications routinely utilized, and to prevent illegal procurement of furniture from countries prohibited as sources by the Trade Agreements Act.

Duration: April 1, 2008 to December 31, 2009

General Issues: Defense, Government Issues, Housing, Manufacturing

Spending: about $100,000 (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: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate