• FY 2009 Commerce, Justice Science Appropriation bill FY 2009 Interior/EPA Appropriation bill FY 2009 Transportation, HUD Appropriation bill FY 2009 Homeland Security Appropriation billFY 2009 Energy and Water Appropriations bill FY 2009 Labor-HHS Appropriations bill Juvenile justice and law enforcement funding; Housing, Community Development and Homeless funding; Workforce; and job training funding; Health-related and HIV/AIDS funding; Human services funding; Army Corps funding; transportation funding; and homeland security funding
• FY 2009 Defense Appropriations bill FY 2009 Military Construction Appropriations bill FY 2009 Defense Authorization
• Medicaid, Public Health
• Affordable Housing - Section 8; Homeless Assistance Community Development - Community Development Block Grant Program Public Housing; HOPE VI Foreclosures
• Airport issues; Infrastructure Investment; Priority Transportation Projects; and Transit and Port Security.
• Public Safety; Gun Control and Crime Prevention
• Immigration - related issues.
• Environment, Renewable Energy; Energy and Environment Block Grant; Green Jobs; Climate change legislation.
• After school; college preparation/access; Teacher Training/Retention
• Interoperable Communications; Disaster Planning assistance.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to December 31, 2008

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Economics/Economic Development, Health Issues, Housing, Transportation, Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice, Immigration, Energy/Nuclear, Education, Disaster Planning/Emergencies

Spending: about $180,000 (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: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Y Y, Y, Y Y HUD