• Policies and legislation pertaining to infrastructure investment and federal financial incentives to promote the establishment of a domestic advanced battery manufacturing capability, including economic stimulus proposals.
• Policies and legislation pertaining to infrastructure investment and federal financial incentives to support the establishment of a domestic advanced battery manufacturing base and assured supply chain to meet critical military requirements, including congressionally mandated initiatives in the Department of Defense (Sec. 218 of PL 110-417).

Duration: November 14, 2008 to January 31, 2009

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Defense, Energy/Nuclear, Economics/Economic Development

Spending: about $20,000 (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