• FY11 Transportation Appropriations issues related to funding for expansion of a bus maintenance facility; streetcar line development; development of a bus rapid transit corridor; issues related to light rail development and park and ride facility. Support for FTA grants.
• Development of rules for Small Starts program. Issues related to reauthorization of SAFETEA-LU including submission of individual transit prroject funding requests.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to July 1, 2011

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Transportation

Spending: about $280,000 (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 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Energy - Dept of