• Federal funding for the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to October 31, 2010

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $40,000 (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, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Energy - Dept of,Natl Institutes of Health (NIH),Natl Science Foundation (NSF),Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP),House of Representatives,U.S. Senate,, Department of Energy,House of Representatives,National Institutes of Health (NIH),National Science Foundation (NSF),Office of Science and Technology Policy,Senate,