• Counterfeiting of US products by foreign entities; steel imports; fuel efficiency standards; remanufacturing incentives. Small business legislation; auto and truck safety issues. Monitored S. 298, Charging America Forward Act; Support for S.734 and H.R. 1367, Advanced Vehicle Technology Act of 2011.
• Counterfeiting of US products by foreign entities; steel imports; remanufacturing incentives, TREAD Act of 2000 and Access to Capital. H.R. 1366, National Manufacturing Strategy Act of 2011 and S. 751, bill to require the Secretary of Commerce to develop a comprehensive national manufacturing strategy, and for other purposes.
• Counterfeiting of US products by foreign entities; steel imports; rare earth minerals.
• Counterfeiting of US products by foreign entities; steel imports; fuel efficiency standards; remanufacturing incentives; truck satety incentives.
• Counterfeiting of US products by foreign entities; steel imports; fuel efficiency standards; remanufacturing incentives; truck safety incentives.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2011

General Issues: Automotive Industry, Manufacturing, Natural Resources, Transportation, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $710,000 (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 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Transportation - Dept of (DOT)