The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (Informs)
Maryland
20 filings from 1 registrant · 2018–2022 · latest filed Dec 16, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1M
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.
Government Issues
GOV
20 filings
$1M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
15 filings
$810K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3580117th CongressEviction Prevention Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1839117th CongressMathematical and Statistical Modeling Education Act7 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Charles CooperSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: CoS, Rep. Adam Putnam; Policy Director, House Republican Conference; Staff Director, Republican Policy Committee; LD, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart; LA, Rep. Felix Grucci, LC, Senator Jon Kyl, Staff Asst., Senator Connie Mack21 filingsthrough 2022
Madeline WadeSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Special Projects Director, Congressman Greg Walden14 filingsthrough 2022
Charles Al MoskowitzSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Sr. Policy Counsel, Dem. Minority Staff; Senate Homeland & Govt. Affairs Committee; Leg. Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill; Counsel, SubCommittee on Financial & Contracting Oversight, Senate Homeland Sec. & Govt. Affairs Comm; LA, Rep. John Tierney10 filingsthrough 2021
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: the-institute-for-operations-research-and-the-management-sciences-informs.
12 filings
$660K on those filings
Education
EDU
7 filings
$380K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
6 filings
$340K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
5 filings
$290K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
5 filings
$280K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
3 filings
$140K 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.
Sarah HamlettSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Drake; Legislative Asst., Rep. Schrock6 filingsthrough 2020
Brad WoltersSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: White House Liaison, Sec. US Dept. of HHS; CoS & Policy Adv., Asst. Sec. for Health, US Dept. of HHS; LA, Senator Barack Obama; LA, US Senate Special Comm on Aging; Research Asst., Senator Tom Daschle; Special Asst., Senator Tom Daschle2 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
