• patient advocacy issues, allowing greater ease for individuals navigating health care and insurance systems
• FY2009 Department of Defense Appropriations Measure, RDT&E, TRICARE, patient advocacy issues, allowing greater ease for individuals navigating health care and insurance systems
• FY2009 Dept of Defense Appropriations Measure, RDT&E, TRICARE, patient advocacy issues, allowing greater ease for individuals navigating health care and insurance systems

Duration: May 1, 2006 to September 30, 2008

General Issues: Health Issues, Insurance, Budget/Appropriations, Defense, Medicare/Medicaid

Spending: about $0 (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 2006: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Army - Dept of (Other) , Defense - Dept of (DOD), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Army - Dept of (Other)