• Unnumbered bill, Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2009, funding for position sensors. Unnumbered bill, Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2009, funding for reliability of electric grid. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGEUnnumbered bill, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009, ARS and CSREES funding. Unnumbered bill, Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009, funding for nursing school. Unnumbered bill, Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies/General Government Appropriations Act, 2009, funding for freight mobility.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to September 30, 2009

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $60,000 (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, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Energy - Dept of, Interior - Dept of (DOI),, Y Y Department of Agriculture; Department of Commerce; Department of Defense; Department of Energy; Department of Interior; National Science Foundation; National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration; White House Office; National Institutes of Health