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Duration: November 5, 2007 to March 31, 2010

General Issues: Advertising, Government Issues, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $280,000 (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: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Education - Dept of, General Services Administration (GSA), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Small Business Adminstration (SBA), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), U.S. Senate, Army - Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Treasury - Dept of, Postal Regulatory Commission, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), U.S. Postal Service (USPS), Transportation - Dept of (DOT)