Lobbying Relationship

Client

AMERICAN WATCH ASSOCIATION

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Lobbying firm

COVINGTON & BURLING LLP

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  • Watch-specific anti-counterfeiting campaign

Duration: to

General Issues: Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Transportation, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $320,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), White House Office, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), Interior - Dept of (DOI), Interior - Dept of (DOI), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Commerce - Dept of (DOC)

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 (2009-
Gina Vetere Senior Policy Advisor to Deputy USTR (2006-08); Director for IP and Innovation (2009-10)
Richard Hertling ​ ​Staff Director & Chief Counsel, House Judiciary Committee; Acting Assistant AG, Office of Leg. Affairs, DoJ; Deputy Assistant AG, Office of Legal Policy, DoJ; Deputy CoS & Leg. Dir., Senator Lamar Alexander
" " Chief of Staff, Senator Peter Fitzgerald; Sr. Counsel, Senate Government Affairs; Chief Counsel, Senator Arlen Specter Constituent Liaison, Rep. Howard Coble (NC-6) 2010); House Rules Committee, Deputy Staff Director (2007-2008); House of Rep. Select Committee on Voting Irregularities, General Counsel, detailed (9/07-9/08); House Committee on Approp., Profess. Staff (2006-2007); House Office of the Parliamentarian: Assoc. (2005); (Assistant 1991-2005); Clerk Committee on Voting Irregulaties, General Gen. Counsel & Asst USTR for Cong Affairs Asst Secretary & DAS, Leg Affairs, DOD Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator Susan Collins Legislative Director, U.S. Senator William Frist Leg Asst, Leg Coun, Leg Dir. Sen. William Cohen
Brendan Parets Legislative Assistant, Rep. J. Gresham Barrett (SC-3)
George Frampton Jr. Chairman of the White House Council on
" " " Environmental Quality
Marney Cheek Assoc. General Counsel - USTR
Veroneau John Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Gen. Counsel & Asst USTR for Cong Affairs Asst Secretary & DAS, Leg Affairs, DOD Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator Susan Collins Legislative Director, U.S. Senator William Frist Leg Asst, Leg Coun, Leg Dir. Sen. William Cohen
Matthew Shapanka n/a
Roderick DeArment n/a
George Frampton n/a
David Grace n/a

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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