• general corporate awareness (educating members of Congress, their staff members, and other government employees about the goods and services offered by HID)

Duration: January 15, 2007 to March 31, 2013

General Issues: Science/Technology, Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV, Consumer Issues/Safety/Protection, Computer Industry, Homeland Security

Spending: about $895,000 (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, Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Y Y Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security