• Transatlantic trade and investment.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to August 30, 2018

General Issues: Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Education, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Agriculture, Foreign Relations, Computer Industry

Spending: about $165,000 (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, House of Representatives, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), White House Office, State - Dept of (DOS), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Education - Dept of, Treasury - Dept of, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Government Accountability Office (GAO), U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), U.S. Trade & Development Agency (USTDA), Energy - Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Natl Security Council (NSC), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)

Related Foreign Entities: Federation of German Industries (Berlin, GER); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 50%; Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (Berlin, GER); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 50%