• Proposals relating to defined benefit plan funding and treatment of hybrid plans. Proposals relating to the treatment of employer-provided employee benefit plans. Proposals related to defined contribution plan fees and fee disclosure practices, including H.R. 1984, 401(k) Fair Disclosure for Retirement Security Act, H.R. 2779, Defined Contribution Plan Fee Transparency Act, and H.R. 2989, 401(k) Fair Disclosure and Pension Security Act.
• Proposals relating to employment-based health plans.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009

General Issues: Retirement, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Health Issues

Spending: about $60,000 (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, White House Office