• FAA reauthorization legislation
• Discussion of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates for air medical services in the context of the Deficit Reduction Select Committee deliberations
• Discussion with authors of Public Safety Office Death benefit legislation.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to March 31, 2012

General Issues: Aviation/Aircraft/Airlines, Medicare/Medicaid, Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice, Government Issues, Health Issues, 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 2008: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, House of Representatives, Senate, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Natl Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Internal Revenue Service (IRS)