The Center for Responsible Lending has cut its first quarter lobbying fees (only $96,000 in the first quarter),  according to a disclosure report. That’s down from the $130,000 spent in the first quarter of last year, and $102,000 spend in the fourth quarter of 2010.

In the January-to-March period, CRL lobbied Congress, Treasury, the White House, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Federal Trade Commission and banking regulators such as the Federal Reserve, according to the report filed with the Secretary of the Senate.