• Surface Transportation Reauthorization including size and weight study required by MAP 21 and freight planning office
• Legislation related to bonus depreciation, tax etenders, fuel tax alternatives
• General legislation that would affect funding requirments on certain defined benefit pension plans
• CSA Reporting changes Electronic on-board recorders Truck size and weight study

Duration: November 1, 2007 to December 31, 2012

General Issues: Transportation, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Retirement, Trucking/Shipping, Homeland Security, Fuel/Gas/Oil, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Disaster Planning/Emergencies, Defense, Energy/Nuclear, Environmental/Superfund, Roads/Highway

Spending: about $3,680,000 (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, Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Treasury - Dept of, Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Federal Highway Administration (FHA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Treasury - Dept of,, U.S. Senate,, Labor - Dept of (DOL), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Federal Maritime Commission, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Policy Development, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), White House Office, Defense Logistics Agency, Y Y, Y Y US DOT (Including FMCSA and FHWA) US DHS (Including TSA), Y Y US DOT (Including FMCSA) US DHS (Including TSA), Y Y US DHS (Including TSA) US DOT (Including PHMSA), Y Y US DOT (including FMCSA)