• Public Access policy

Duration: June 15, 2007 to present

General Issues: Education, Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Budget/Appropriations, Government Issues

Spending: about $2,960,000 (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, Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Energy - Dept of, Natl Science Foundation (NSF), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Education - Dept of, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), State - Dept of (DOS), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Labor - Dept of (DOL), U.S. Copyright Office, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Natl Security Council (NSC), White House Office, U.S. Copyright Office,, Intl Trade Administration (ITA),, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)