• Open Skies, airport funding, aviation taxes and fees, security, consumer protection, foreign repair stations, spectrum, environment, training, workforce

Duration: January 1, 2008 to present

General Issues: Aviation/Aircraft/Airlines

Spending: about $1,437,500 (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 2008: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Transportation - Dept of (DOT), State - Dept of (DOS), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, State - Dept of (DOS),, Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration,, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Defense - Dept of (DOD)