• HR 2610/S 1243, FY14 Transportation/HUD Appropriations bill; Department of Transportation, innovative financing for corridor acquisition.
• Implementation of MAP-21, Surface Transportation Reauthorization, Funding for High Speed Rail, authorization of the Altamont corridor acquisition program, merging rail and transit funds, private contracting for rail services.
• Request DOL certification that FTA grants have no adverse impact on labor unions' collective bargaining rights (13C).

Duration: November 1, 2007 to June 30, 2013

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Transportation, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $440,000 (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, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Federal Railroad Administration, Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Y Y Department of Transportation, Office of Innovative Financing Federal Transit Administration Federal Railroad Administration