Lobbyists reported an uptick in tax and other federal policy work during the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, but the money spent to influence the federal government still didn’t surpass the inaugural year of the Obama administration, a Roll Call review of new disclosure reports found.

The number of federal disclosure reports that lobbyists filed last year — 50,000 — fell short of the 58,000 reports filed during 2009, President Barack Obama’s first year in office. Despite the fewer reports last year, companies and trade organizations spent roughly the same amount of money to influence Congress and the executive branch — $3.9 billion — in both years.

The Republican tax overhaul fueled lobbying, particularly during the final three months of 2017. The Business Roundtable, for example, reported shelling out some $17.4 million between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, during the height of the tax overhaul debate on Capitol Hill.

Lobbyists said they felt the increase in business during the first year of the Trump administration and the GOP’s control of the White House and Congress, but some noted that it paled when compared to Obama’s first months in office with Democratic control of the legislative branch.