• Tax issues related to manufacturing, energy and financial instruments debated during the 110th session of congress on the following bills: - H.R. 5720, the "Housing Assistance Tax Act of 2008" - H.R. 5719, the "Taxpayer Assistance and Simplification Act of 2008" -H.R. 6049, the "Energy and Tax Extenders Act of 2008" - H.R. 1424, the "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008" - S.1587, the "Rise Act" - H.R. 2242, the "Heartland, Habitat, Harvest, and Horticulture Act of 2007" and Title XII of the H.R. 2419 the farm bill - H.R. 5351, "Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008" - H.R. 3221,"Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008." - S. 3125, "Energy Independence and Tax Relief Act of 2008" - S. 2886, "Alternative Minimum Tax and Extenders Tax Relief Act of 2008"

Duration: February 1, 2007 to February 15, 2009

General Issues: Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

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 2007: Senate, House of Representatives, Treasury, Dept of, Internal Revenue Service (IRS)