• FY 2014 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill; Health care reform; Promise Neighborhood; H.R. 1920 The Disproportionate Share Hospital Reduction Relief Act of 2013; Inclusion on the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Centers referral list for hospital services.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to February 3, 2014

General Issues: Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Budget/Appropriations, Education, Veterans, Economics/Economic Development, Urban Development/Municipalities

Spending: about $570,000 (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, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Y Y