• Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act FY11 and FY12 State, and Foreign Operations Appropriations Act, 2011 and FY12 Sickle Cell Treatment Act Reauthorization FY11 and FY12 Debt Limit Negotiations

Duration: June 21, 2007 to June 1, 2011

General Issues: Health Issues

Spending: about $220,000 (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, White House Office, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Y Y