• Senate Appropriations Committee, FY2010 DOD Appropriations bill, request for directed funding to support final development of an advanced counter-IED system; request for directed funding for development of a military variant of a commercial electric vehicle.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to February 1, 2010

General Issues: Defense, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $90,000 (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: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Y Y