• Monitor and report on all railroad and public transit legislative and regulatory issues affecting SCRRA. General promotion of SCRRA in Congress and Executive Branch. Draft letter to FTA and congressional amendment to remove financial penalty when FTA-funded locomotives are replaced with new clean-air locomotives.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to March 31, 2021

General Issues: Railroads, Transportation

Spending: about $870,000 (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: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Federal Railroad Administration, Natl Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Transportation - Dept of (DOT),, Federal Railroad Administration,