Lobbying Relationship

Client

Hikvision, USA Inc.

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Lobbying firm

The Glover Park Group LLC

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  • Lobbying related to prohibitions on certain video surveillance equipment in the National Defense Authorization Act (HR 5515) and other potential legislation.

Duration: to

General Issues: Defense, Foreign Relations, Homeland Security, Intelligence and Surveillance, Science/Technology

Spending: about $240,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2018: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate

Related Foreign Entities: Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. (Hangzhou 310052, CHN); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%; CETHIK Group Co., Ltd (Hangzhou 311121, CHN); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 39%; China Electronics Technology Group Co., Ltd(a wholly state-owned Chinese company) (Beijing 100846, CHN); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 41%

Bills mentioned

H.R.5515: John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019

Sponsor: William M. Thornberry (R-Texas)

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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?
Joel Johnson Chief of Staff, Senator Howard Metzenbaum; Exec. Director, House Democratic Study Group; Assistant Secretary of the Minority, U.S. Senate; Staff Director, Democrat Leadership Committees; Assistant and Sr. Advisor to the President for Policy and Comms
Brett O'Brien Staff Assistant, Congressional Research Service; Legislative Assistant, Representative Jim Bates; Foreign and Defense Policy Advisor, Democratic Policy Committee, U.S. Senate; Foreign and Defense Policy Advisor, Rep. Richard Gephardt
Susan Brophy Chief of Staff, Representative Byron Dorgan; Chief of Staff, Senator Tim Wirth; Dep. Asst.to the President for Leg. Affairs
Randy DeValk Counselor to Secretary of Treasury, US Department of the Treasury; Acting Deputy Undersecretary for Legislative Affairs, US Department of the Treasury; Counselor to the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, White House;
cont. cont. Deputy Chief of Staff, United States Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid; Legislative Policy Director, United States Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid; Senior Legislative Assistant, US Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle.

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.

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

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