• Alzheimer activities and Administration on Aging state demonstration grants HR 3293, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill, FY 2010 (H.R. 3288, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010), Alzheimer's medical research, Center for Disease Control and Prevention HR 2847, Commerce/Justice/Science Appropriations Bill, FY 2010 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010), Alzheimer's Missing Patient Alert Program

Duration: November 1, 2007 to December 31, 2009

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $260,000 (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, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Y Y National Institutes of Health