• FY09 Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act; Appropriations for road and bridge improvements in Anderson County, South Carolina; FY10 Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act for road improvements in Anderson County, South Carolina.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to March 31, 2009

General Issues: Transportation, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $120,000 (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 2007: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Y Y