• Issues related to administration of HUD Community Planning and Development programs. Choice Neighborhoods grant funding. Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant funding. New Markets Tax Credits allocation issues.
• EPA Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund grant.

Duration: February 28, 2005 to July 1, 2013

General Issues: Urban Development/Municipalities, Environmental/Superfund, Budget/Appropriations, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $640,000 (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 2005: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Economic Development Administration, Interior - Dept of (DOI), Energy - Dept of, Treasury - Dept of, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Small Business Adminstration (SBA)