• Trade; customs; corporate social responsibility; environment; hiv/aids; labor; environmental health and safety; product safety; tax and e-commerce.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to March 31, 2011

General Issues: Apparel/Clothing Industry/Textiles

Spending: about $196,450 (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: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Government Accountability Office (GAO), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Intl Trade Administration (ITA), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Natl AIDS Policy, Treasury - Dept of, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), State - Dept of (DOS), Energy - Dept of, Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), White House Office