• Monitor FY2008 and 2009 appropriations measures involving tribal programs and agencies, including SBA, BIA, and IHS; Interior Appropriations Act of FY2009; Homeland Security Appropriations Act of FY2009
• Monitor all legislation involving the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and related issues.
• Monitoring all legislation affecting client-tribes government and business operations; H.R.1328, Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2007; S.1200, Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2007; H.R.984, Executive Branch Reform Act of 2007, H.R.1873, Small Business Fairness in Contracting Act

Duration: April 1, 2008 to June 30, 2008

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Gaming/Gambling/Casino, Indian/Native American Affairs

Spending: about $50,000 (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 Indian Affairs (BIA), Indian Health Service, Small Business Adminstration (SBA)