• FY09 Transportation

Duration: November 1, 2007 to January 31, 2009

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Aviation/Aircraft/Airlines, Environmental/Superfund, Transportation, Natural Resources, Roads/Highway, Telecommunications

Spending: about $50,000 (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, Senate, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Y Y Federal Aviation Administration Department of Transportation, Y Y Federal Transit Administration Department of Transportation U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Y Y U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Y Y Federal Aviation Administration Federal Transit Administration Department of Transportation