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WASHINGTON (AP) - Business consultancy BearingPoint Inc. spent nearly $1.5 million to lobby the federal government in 2007.
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The company lobbied on various appropriations bills, as well as on funding for the State Department's passport work, port and border security issues, legislation dealing with procurement reform and more.
The McLean, Va.-based company spent $760,000 in the second half of 2007, according to a disclosure form posted online Feb. 12 by the Senate's public records office.
Besides Congress, BearingPoint lobbied the departments of Defense, State, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Veterans Affairs.
Lobbyists are required to disclose activities that could influence members of the executive and legislative branches, under a federal law enacted in 1995.
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