• H.R. 3221 - Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 and H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, provisions related to LEAP/GAP, FAFSA Simplification, FFELP loan programs, and college financial aid programs.
• FY2011 Department of Education appropriations, provisions related to FY2011 LEAP/GAP and need-based college financial aid grant programs; H.R. 3221 - Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 and H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, provisions related to College Access Challenge Grant, LEAP/GAP, and need-based college financial aid grant program funding.

Duration: April 1, 2008 to May 1, 2010

General Issues: Education, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $60,000 (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, Education - Dept of, House of Representatives,, House of Representatives, U.S. Senate,, Executive Office of the President (EOP)