• Assisted XM with congressional strategies,including advocacy for the proposed merger of XM and Sirius and oversight of broad copyright issues. Monitored HR 4789, the Performance Rights Act and House Appropriations. Dealt primarily with the House Judiciary and Commerce Committees.

Duration: April 1, 2008 to October 1, 2008

General Issues: Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV

Spending: about $30,000 (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