Lobbying Relationship

Client

NT Concepts, Inc.

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Lobbying firm

COVINGTON & BURLING LLP

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Duration: to

General Issues: Government Issues

Spending: about $40,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2017: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives

Lobbyists

Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.

Lobbyist Covered positions?
Muftiah McCartin House Rules Committee, Staff Director; House Rules Committee, Deputy Staff Director; ​House Select Committee on Voting Registration Irregularities, General Counsel, detailed (9/2007-9/2008)
William Wichterman Special Assistant to President Bush (2008-2009); Sr. Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader Frist (2003-2005); Chief of Staff, Rep. Joseph Pitts (1997-2002); Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Baker (1994 -1997)
Layth Elhassani White House Off. Leg. Aff., Sp. Assist. to the President; Off. of Sen. Bennet, Leg. Dir.; House Comm. on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Off. of Rep. Velazquez, Leg. Dir.; Off. of Sen. Cantwell, Leg. Counsel; Off. of Sen. Hollings, Legal Counsel.
Richard Hertling Staff Director & Chief Counsel, House Judiciary Cmte.; ​Acting Assistant AG, Office of Legislative Affairs, Dep. of Justice; Deputy Assistant AG, ​Office of Legal Policy, Dept. of Justice; Deputy CoS & Legislative Director, Senator Lamar ​Alexander.
Richard Hertling (Continued) Minority Staff Director, Senate Government Affairs Committee; ​Chief of Staff, Senator Peter Fitzgerald; Senior Counsel, Senate Government Affairs Committee; Chief Counsel, Senator Arlen Specter.
Gabriel Neville Special Assistant, Press Secretary, Communications Director & Chief of Staff, Congressman Joseph Pitts.

Disclosures Filed

Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.

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Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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