• S 1624 - A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the exception from the treatment of publicly traded partnerships and corporations for partnerships with passive-type income shall not apply to partnerships directly or indirectly deriving income from providing investment advisers and related asset management services--see provisions Monitor developing tax policyItem 16 continued HR 2834 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income received by partners for performing investment management services as ordinary income received for the performance of services--see provisions HR 6521 - The Federal Housing Finance Regulatory Reform Act of 2008--provisions related to access to capital, urban workforce housing and Real Estate Investment Trusts HR 3321 - Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 208 - provisions relates to capital, urban workforce housing and Real Estate Investment Trusts HR 6725 - The Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008 - provisions related on carried interests

Duration: July 11, 2007 to December 31, 2008

General Issues: Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Insurance

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 2007: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate