• FY 2010 Defense Appropriations; FY 2010 Foreign Operations Appropriations

Duration: September 30, 2007 to June 30, 2009

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs

Spending: about $260,000 (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: State - Dept of (DOS), House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Defense - Dept of (DOD),Office of Management and Budget (OMB),House of Representatives,U.S. Senate,, Department of Defense (DOD),House of Representatives,Office of Management and Budget (OMB),Senate,