• H.R.1, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, direct funding to local governments, implementation of programs and grant opportunities; and FY10 Appropriations: Transportation/HUD (FTA).
• FEMA and general hurricane recovery issues.
• H.R. 915, FAA Reauthorization Act of 2009, AIP funding and PFC funding. SAFETEA-LU Reauthorization, project funding, bill passage, general transportation issues.

Duration: September 1, 2008 to July 1, 2009

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Homeland Security, Transportation

Spending: about $65,000 (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