• Federal rembursements for detention of sentenced felons and recommitteed parolees.
• Implementation of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, provisions related to local government activity financing and programs, including housing and community development, transportation, and energy.
• Surface transportation reauthorization legislative proposals, including program, formula, and governance reform issues.
• Neighborhood Stabilization Program grant implementation. Housing foreclosure response legislative proposals.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to July 1, 2010

General Issues: Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice, Urban Development/Municipalities, Transportation, Housing, Budget/Appropriations, District of Columbia, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Natural Resources, Welfare, Homeland Security, Health Issues, Environmental/Superfund, Defense, Education, Family Issues/Abortion/Adoption

Spending: about $80,000 (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: Office of Management & Budget (OMB), House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Energy - Dept of, General Services Administration (GSA), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Army - Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Architect of the Capitol (AOC), Interior - Dept of (DOI), Natl Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), Natl Park Service (NPS), Army Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Homeland Security Dept of (DHS), Justice Dept of (DOJ), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Transportation Dept of (DOT), Federal Highway Administration (FHA), Health & Human Services Dept of (HHS)