• Capital investment grants and bus/bus facilities funding opportunities; competitive grant opportunities within the Federal Transit Administration; FY16 Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill; Federal Surface Transportation Reauthorization; Transit Rider tax benefits.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to December 31, 2015

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Transportation, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Banking, Roads/Highway

Spending: about $1,600,000 (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: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), U.S. Senate,, Federal Transit Administration (FTA),, Federal Reserve System, Treasury - Dept of, Federal Railroad Administration,, Federal Railroad Administration, Inter-American Foundation, Y Y Federal Transit Administration