• H. Con. Res. 183, calling on the Government of Azerbaijan to immediately release Farhad & Rafiq Aliyev from detention during trial, to assure their right to a fair and open trial, and to comply with all its international human rights agreements respecting the rule of law - entire resolution.

Duration: May 15, 2007 to June 30, 2009

General Issues: Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Foreign Relations, Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice

Spending: about $135,000 (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, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Office of the Vice President of the United States