• Farm Bill, H.R. 2419, as amended by Senate Amendment 3500, Title VII, Section 7102, on "HIGH-PRIORITY RESEARCH AND EXTENSION INITIATIVES," which amends Section 1672 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5925) to add a new provision in subsection (e): `(50) PESTICIDE SAFETY RESEARCH INITIATIVE.

Duration: June 1, 2007 to October 1, 2008

General Issues: Agriculture

Spending: about $45,000 (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