• Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, FY2009, Education initiatives. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, FY2009, Education initiatives.Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations, FY2009, Conservation issues. Agriculture Appropriations Act, FY2009, Conservation issues. H.R.2272, America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act, Science and technology issues.
• No lobbying activity.
• H.R.2272, America COMPETES Act, Competitiveness related issues.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to January 31, 2008

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Animals, Education, Science/Technology

Spending: about $10,000 (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,, U.S. Senate, Education - Dept of