International Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation (Spie)
Washington
18 filings from 1 registrant · 2013–2017 · latest filed Jan 23, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$495K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$495K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Science/Technology
SCI
18 filings
$495K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
13 filings
$395K on those filings
Education
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1960113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4186113th CongressFIRST Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: international-society-for-photo-optical-instrumentation-spie.
EDU
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
113th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014
4 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1468113th CongressRevitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1735114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2353115th CongressStrengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act2 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20172 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2757113th CongressAmerica COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1806114th CongressAmerica COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Dana ThompsonPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: LD/Chf. Counsel, Rep. Maxine Waters // L. Cnsl/C. Cnsl/Dpty COS/COS, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee5 filingsthrough 2017
Elizabeth Ann MorraPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm. Director, House Appropriations Cmte.4 filingsthrough 2017
Elizabeth SagePodesta Group, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2017
Andrew KaudersPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Adv'r/Exec. Dir., House Democratic Caucus // Sr. Adv'r/Comm. Dir., Rep. Robert Menendez // Spksperson/Asst. to D. Sec'y, Dept. of Agriculture // Dpty. Comm. Dir., WH Climate Chg Task Force // Special Assistant, Environ. Protection Agency3 filingsthrough 2017
David MarinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Press Sec'y/Leg. Director, Rep. Tom Davis3 filingsthrough 2016
Oscar RamirezPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Special Asst. to the Secretary, Dept. of Labor ; ; Chief of Staff, Rep. Hilda Solis ; ; Leg. Director/Deputy CoS, Rep. Al Green ; ; Leg. Asst./Asst. LD/LD, Rep. Joe Baca3 filingsthrough 2016
Riley MoorePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Intern/Dpty Clk/Prof Staff, H Cmte For. Affairs // Del. Scty, US Del to NATO Parl. Assembly3 filingsthrough 2016
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Staff Director/Communications, Joint Economic Committee / Press Secretary/Legislative Asst./Sr. Communications Adviser, Rep. Ed Markey / Communications Director, Sen. Charles Schumer1 filingthrough 2015
David AdamsPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Asst Secy for Legislative Affairs, Dept. of State / Dpty. Asst Secy for House Affairs, Dept. of State / SD, H. Foreign Affairs Cmte./Sub. on M. East & S. Asia / Prof. Staff, H. Foreign Affairs Cmte.1 filingthrough 2015
