Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
The Optical Society
District of Columbia
15 filings from 2 registrants · 2014–2018 · latest filed Oct 18, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$362K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$362K
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Manufacturing
MAN
9 filings
$228K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
3 filings
$80K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Chris Fish Mcallister & Quinn, LLCCovered position: EA - Sen. D'Amato; DR, DD - Rep. Kelly; COS - Rep. Sweeney11 filingsthrough 2016
- Josh Frisch Mcallister & Quinn, LLC8 filingsthrough 2015
- Emily Flynn Pappas Cogent Strategies LLC4 filingsthrough 2018
- Will Scales Mcallister & Quinn, LLC4 filingsthrough 2016
- Randall Gerard Cogent Strategies LLC Staff Asst, Sen. Comm., Science & Trans. Cmte.
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-optical-society.