APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.

Lobbying client · Texas · filed 2025 to 2026

Fiber optic network products design and manufacturing

$270,000 Reported spend

6 Filings counted

1 Firms hired

2 Bills named

Spend is reported income plus in-house expenses across 6 filings. 2 further filings on this record were restated by a later amendment and are left out of every total here. Everything on this page is grouped by the client's LDA id (66496), not by name.

Firms hired 1

BANNER PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC $270,000 6 filings

Bills named in these filings 2

HR 3838
Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fisc…

3 filings
S 2296
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026

3 filings

Reported by year 2 years

2026 $120,000 2 filings
2025 $150,000 4 filings

Issues lobbied 3

The count is how many filings named that issue area. A filing reports one lump figure covering every issue on it, so the money above cannot be split between them.

Agencies and chambers lobbied 4

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 5
SENATE 5
Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS) 2
Natl Security Council (NSC) 1

Recent filings 8 total

2A

BANNER PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC

2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026 · House · Senate · $60,000 income · posted Jul 21, 2026

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BANNER PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC Amended

2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026 · House · Senate · $60,000 income · posted Jul 21, 2026

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BANNER PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC

1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2026 · House · Senate · $60,000 income · posted Apr 20, 2026

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BANNER PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC Amended

1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2026 · House · Senate · $60,000 income · posted Apr 20, 2026

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BANNER PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC

4th Quarter (Oct 1 - Dec 31) 2025 · House · Senate · $50,000 income · posted Jan 16, 2026

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BANNER PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC

3rd Quarter (July 1 - Sep 30) 2025 · House · Senate · $50,000 income · posted Oct 20, 2025

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BANNER PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC

2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2025 · House · Senate · $50,000 income · posted Aug 5, 2025

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BANNER PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC

2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2025 · posted May 9, 2025

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Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings, synced daily. Money is self-reported by the filer and often rounded. Lobbying is legal, disclosed activity.