• Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Bill (Nursing); Defense Appropriations Bill (Navy/Distance Learning)
• Student loan issues, TRIO, and community college/university partnerships, program integrity regulations- state authorization
• Surface Transportation Authorization legislation
• State/Local Homeland Security and FEMA programs
• Nursing workforce training
• Distance learning education for military personnel and Defense Authorization

Duration: February 1, 2008 to November 30, 2012

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Education, Transportation, Homeland Security, Health Issues, Defense, Agriculture, Science/Technology

Spending: about $230,000 (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,, U.S. Senate, Education - Dept of, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)