• Monitoring legislation pertaining to loan forgiveness programs for professional engineers; entire bill as follows: H.R. 3634, STEP Act (The Strategic Technology/Engineering Program)
• Monitoring issues related to Qualifications Based Selection (QBS) and Aviation Reauthorization legislation; entire bills of the following: H.R.2881, S. 1300, S. 2972, the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2007 / Aviation Investment and Modernization Act of 2007: To amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize appropriations for the Federal Aviation Administration for fiscal years 2008 - 2011, to improve aviation safety and capacity, to provide stable funding for the national aviation system, and for other purposes.
• Monitoring issues particularly related to repealing provisions of the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 requiring federal, state, and local governmental entities to withhold 3% of payments due to vendors providing goods and services to such entities; entire bills of the following: H.R. 1023/ S. 777, to repeal the imposition of withholding on certain payments made to vendors by government agencies

Duration: November 1, 2007 to January 31, 2009

General Issues: Education, Aviation/Aircraft/Airlines, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Agriculture, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $80,000 (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