WASHINGTON - The U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. spent almost $5.9 million in 2007 on lobbying, according to a disclosure form posted online Feb. 13 by the Senate's public records office.
The auto company spent almost $3.6 million in the second half of 2007 to lobby the federal government on motor vehicle fuel economy standards, climate change legislation, providing health care for employees, trade policy and amending the Family and Medical Leave Act, among other issues.
Toyota also spent $2.3 million in the first six months of 2007 to lobby, mainly on the same issues.
Besides Congress, Toyota lobbied the departments of Transportation, Labor, State, Treasury, Commerce and Health and Human Services, the U.S. Trade Representative's office and other agencies.
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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