• Followed progress on all potential Direct to Consumer advertising amendments in the House and Senate, in particular H.R. 2900, Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007; H.R. 2823, Fair Balance Prescription Drug Advertisement Act of 2007; and S. 1082, FDA Authorization Revitalization Act.
• Monitored and tracked a potential movement in legislation impacting the use of advertising in all communications media, including radio, TV, print and the Internet.
• Monitor legislation and agency activities having any impact on the status of the business deductibility of advertising.

Duration: April 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008

General Issues: Advertising, Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

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, Executive Office of the President (EOP)