• Requests relative to Appropriations for funding a joint government/industry initiative for building a very large hot isostatic press under the Defense Production Act Title III program., Senate Report 111-74, H.R. Report 111-230, to accompany H.R 3326, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL, FY 2010

Duration: July 8, 2008 to January 20, 2010

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Defense, Manufacturing, Energy/Nuclear

Spending: about $40,000 (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, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Energy - Dept of

Affiliated organizations: Brush Wellman Inc.; Metals Affordability Initiative Assoc