• Monitoring of budget and appropriations appropriations Act for FY 2017, specifically for infrastructure improvements; Department of Transportation TIGER Discretionary Grant Program; and rural development programs.
• Work with USDA and congressional offices regarding rural development issues, specifically waste water treatment loans and grants.

Duration: March 1, 2007 to October 1, 2016

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Agriculture, Economics/Economic Development, Urban Development/Municipalities

Spending: about $620,000 (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, Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Appalachian Regional Commission, U.S. Senate,, Army - Dept of (Corps of Engineers)

Affiliated organizations: Troutman Sanders LLP