• Implementation of the President's Working Group capital market initiatives as it pertains to securitization and housing reform legislation as it pertains to tracking mortgages as they are originated and securitized (HR 1728) and the Senate Banking Committee "Chairman's Mark: Restoring America's Financial Stability Act" with special reference to Title IX, Subtitle D, section 942, and Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) in Title X, Subtitle H, section 1093.

Duration: September 1, 2008 to September 30, 2011

General Issues: Banking, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities

Spending: about $30,000 (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