• Title VII Health Professions Programs FY 2015 Appropriations Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs Appropriations for FY 2015 Sequestration
• S. 1982, the Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014 VHA Handbook and APRNs H.R. 4656, the Caring for Americas Heroes Act

Duration: January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2014

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Veterans, Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Defense, Education, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace

Spending: about $270,000 (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, Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), White House Office, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. Senate,, Labor - Dept of (DOL), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)