• Seeking federal funding for Northwest Access Loop Road under the Transportation, Community and System Preservation account in the fiscal year 2009 Transportation-HUD Appropriations Bill; Seeking federal funding for Desalination Plant under Title XVI, Water Reclamation and Reuse, in the fiscal year 2009 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill; Seeking federal funding for Mobile Telehealth Program under the Health Resources and Services Administration account in the fiscal year 2009 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Bill; Seeking federal funding for deployment of broadband technology under the Small Business Administration Salaries and Expenses account in the fiscal year 2009 Financial Services Appropriations Bill.
• Seeking to uphold cooperative agreement between National Parks Service in Tent Rocks National Monument and Cochiti Pueblo.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to February 20, 2009

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Indian/Native American Affairs

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 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Bureau of Land Management (BLM)