• Monitor activity related to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act/Troubled Asset Relief Program and advise client on implications for the accounting field. Outreach to the listed agencies regarding government oversight and accounting
• Met with HUD officals to discuss foreclosure mitigation policies. Outreach to the listed agenices regarding government oversight and accounting.

Duration: December 3, 2008 to June 30, 2009

General Issues: Accounting, Banking

Spending: about $150,000 (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, Treasury - Dept of, Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC), Federal Reserve System, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Education - Dept of, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Defense - Dept of (DOD), AMTRAK - Natl Railroad Passenger Corporation, Small Business Adminstration (SBA), General Services Administration (GSA), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), Social Security Administration (SSA), State - Dept of (DOS), Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Corporation for Natl & Community Service, Corporation for Natl & Community Service