• FY11 Transportation, Treasury and Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill. Monitor development of transportation infrastructure bank legislation.
• SAFETEA-LU reauthorization; Department of Transportation rules for small starts funding. Issues related to stimulus funding.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to October 1, 2011

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Transportation

Spending: about $370,000 (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, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Transportation Dept of (DOT), Y Y Department of Transportation Federal Transportation Administration, Y Y