• Infrastructure investment in freight and passenger rail including economic recovery appropriations, surface transportation authorization; rail-related appropriations, tax policy, energy and environmental issues. (Implementation of P.L. 110-432, P.L. 111-5, FY2010 THUD appropriations; H.R. 3617 Surface Transportation Authorization Act of 2009 and counterpart Senate consideration; S. 1036, S. 575, and H.R. 1329 (CLEAN-TEA), and other energy/climate consideration; FY2011 THUD appropriations.)
• Funding and appropriations issues associated with rail-related infrastructure investment including economic recovery appropriations. (Implementation of P.L. 111-5; FY2010 THUD appropriations; FY2011 appropriations.)
• Environmental issues associated with rail-related infrastructure investment (H.R. 2454, S. 1462, H.R. 1329, S. 575).
• Energy issues associated with rail-related infrastructure investment (H.R. 2454, S. 1462 American Clean Energy Leadership Act).

Duration: December 16, 2008 to December 31, 2010

General Issues: Railroads, Transportation, Roads/Highway, Budget/Appropriations, Environmental/Superfund, Energy/Nuclear

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, Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Federal Railroad Administration

Affiliated organizations: Association of American Railroads