• Reauthorization & Funding of TBI Act & CDC TBI programs as well as funding for TBI Model Systems

Duration: January 1, 2008 to present

General Issues: Health Issues, Veterans, Medicare/Medicaid

Spending: about $2,510,000 (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, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Agency for Health Care Policy & Research, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Education - Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Administration for Children & Families (ACF), Office of the Secretary of Defense, President of the U.S., Social Security Administration (SSA), White House Office, Administration on Aging, Army - Dept of (Other) , Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Natl Council on Disability, Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Government Accountability Office (GAO), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Office of Administration, Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission, House of Representatives, Senate, Defense, Dept of (DOD), Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Transportation - Dept of (DOT)