• Reauthorization of 7A and 504 loan programs.
• Monitored money service business, Bank Secrecy Act, non-prime mortgages, arbitration, credit card issues and H.R. 1424, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.
• H.R. 2238/S.2373, To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for residents of Puerto Rico who participate in cafeteria plans under the Puerto Rican tax laws an exclusion from employment taxes which is comparable to the exclusion that applies to cafeteria plans under such Code, all sections.
• Development of light rail system for Old San Juan.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to November 7, 2008

General Issues: Banking, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Transportation

Spending: about $390,000 (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, Small Business Adminstration (SBA), Treasury - Dept of