• H.R. 5856, Department of Defense Appropriations FY2013: grants and appropriations for the Smart Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Program and the Waste Water to Energy Program. Federal agencies' (DoT, DoC, HUD, DHS) grant programs and alternative energy projects.
• H.R. 5856, Department of Defense Appropriations FY2013; H.R. 4310, National Defense Authorization Act: support funding for the Smart Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Program and the Waste Water to Energy Program and Microgrid program.
• H.R. 5325, S. 2465, Energy and Water Appropriations FY2013: alternative energy funding and grant programs.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to October 1, 2012

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Defense, Energy/Nuclear

Spending: about $700,000 (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, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Energy - Dept of,, Energy - Dept of, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS),, Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD)