• FY09 Transportation reauthorization - road; FY09 L/HHS/ED appropriations - education; FY09 E and W appropriations - environmental programs; FY09 CJS appropriations - law enforcement training; FY09 Interior appropriations - historic building renovation; FY09 TTHUD appropriations - building renovation; State/Foreign Ops - international education; Homeland Security appropriations - homeland security program
• FY09 L/HHS/ED appropriations - education - science program, degree completion; FY09 E and W appropriations - environmental programs; FY09 CJS appropriations - law enforcement training; FY09 TTHUD Appropriations - disabilities center; FY09 Interior Appropriations - historic renovation; FY09 Financial Services - entrepreneurship program; DOD - continuing education initiative

Duration: January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Education

Spending: about $70,000 (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