• FY 2012 Agriculture, Rural Development Appropriations Bill seeking continuation funding for agricultural crop risk initiative.
• FY 2012 Defense Appropriations and National Defense Authorization Bills seeking funding for the following projects: 1. Prosthetic device composite materials research program for the Army; 2. Electro kinetic weapons systems integration program for the Navy; 3. Integrated cyro-cooled high power density initiative with Department of Defense; 4)Jet Engine noise control system for the Navy. Worked to forge partnership with Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs on prosthetic research and development. Pursuing competitive grants for same projects.
• Working to set up meetings with Department of Labor to discuss worker re-training programs for dislocated space workers.
• Working with Department of Veterans Affairs to forge partnership on prosthetic research and development.
• Pursue competitive grant funding for university transportation research and development.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to December 31, 2011

General Issues: Agriculture, Defense, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Veterans, Transportation, Environmental/Superfund, Homeland Security, Foreign Relations, Education, Energy/Nuclear

Spending: about $320,000 (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.

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