ATA spends nearly $2 million lobbying in Washington

The Associated Press

3/13/2008

WASHINGTON — The American Trucking Associations spent more than $1.9 million to lobby the federal government in 2007, according to a disclosure form.

The trade group lobbied on various appropriations bills, and on hazardous materials issues, pension reform, highway funding, border security, tax reductions and more, according to the form posted online Feb. 13 by the Senate's public records office.

The group spent more than $945,000 in the second half of 2007 to lobby on those issues.

Besides Congress, the trade group lobbied the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Labor and Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, Internal Revenue Service and the White House.

Lobbyists are required to disclose activities that could influence members of the executive and legislative branches, under a federal law enacted in 1995.