• Legislation to allow employees of a commercial passenger airline carrier who receive payments in a bankruptcy proceeding to roll over such payments into a traditional individual retirement plan. Issues related to tax reform, including proposals to reduce pension contribution limits and to reduce the exclusion for employer-provided health care.

Duration: May 1, 2007 to March 31, 2012

General Issues: Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Retirement, Homeland Security

Spending: about $780,000 (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.

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