• Department of Transportation funding, grants

Duration: February 13, 2008 to December 31, 2008

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Economics/Economic Development, Transportation

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: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Administration for Children & Families (ACF), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Economic Development Administration, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Minority Business Development Agency, Natl Endowment for the Arts, Natl Park Service (NPS), Office of Justice Program, Office of Juvenile Justice & Deliquency Prevention, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Small Business Adminstration (SBA), Smithsonian Institution