• Homeland Security

Duration: August 12, 2005 to August 14, 2008

General Issues: Homeland Security, Budget/Appropriations, Immigration, Travel/Tourism, Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Computer Industry, Defense, Government Issues

Spending: about $560,000 (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 2005: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, State - Dept of (DOS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Office of Management & Budget (OMB),, U.S. Copyright Office