Lobbying Relationship

Client

Quantum Industry Coalition

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Lobbying firm

K&L GATES, LLP

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  • Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations for FY 2024 - issues related to quantum technology. Energy and Water Appropriations for FY 2024 - issues related to quantum computing. Department of Defense Appropriations for FY 2024 - issues related to quantum computing. National Defense Authorization Act - issues related to quantum computing. National Quantum Initiative Act (not yet introduced) - entire bill.

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General Issues: Science/Technology

Spending: about $570,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2018: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), White House Office, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Energy - Dept of, Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB)

Affiliated organizations: D-Wave Government; EeroQ; Entanglement Institute; Founder Fund; Intel; Lockheed Martin; MagiQ Technologies; Nanotronics; QxBranch; Rigetti Computing; Strangeworks; Turing, Inc.; Zapata Computing

Bills mentioned

H.R.6227: National Quantum Initiative Act

Sponsor: Lamar Smith (R-Texas)

H.R.2500: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020

Sponsor: Adam Smith (D-Wash.)

S.1780: Focus on Children Act

Sponsor: Kamala Harris (D-Calif.)

H.R.3505: To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of...

Sponsor: Anthony Brown (D-Md.)

H.R.2960: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020

Sponsor: Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio)

S.2584: Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020

Sponsor: Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)

S.2470: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020

Sponsor: Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)

H.R.1158: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020

Sponsor: Michael McCaul (R-Texas)

S.4049: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021

Sponsor: James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.)

H.R.6395: William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for...

Sponsor: Adam Smith (D-Wash.)

S.3832: Endless Frontier Act

Sponsor: Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)

H.R.7667: Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021

Sponsor: José E. Serrano (D-N.Y.)

H.R.7613: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021

Sponsor: Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio)

H.R.8303: QUEST Act of 2020

Sponsor: Frank D. Lucas (R-Okla.)

H.R.8279: Quantum Network Infrastructure Act of 2020

Sponsor: Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.)

H.R.133: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021

Sponsor: Henry Cuellar (D-Texas)

S.1260: United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021

Sponsor: Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)

S.1161: Quantum Network Infrastructure and Workforce Development Act of 2021

Sponsor: John Thune (R-S.D.)

S.1197: QUANTUM for National Security Act of 2021

Sponsor: Margaret Hassan (D-N.H.)

H.R.4505: Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022

Sponsor: Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.)

H.R.2471: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022

Sponsor: Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

H.R.4521: United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021

Sponsor: Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas)

H.R.8256: Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023

Sponsor: Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.)

H.R.8236: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2023

Sponsor: Betty McCollum (D-Minn.)

H.R.7900: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023

Sponsor: Adam Smith (D-Wash.)

H.R.4346: Supreme Court Security Funding Act of 2022

Sponsor: Tim Ryan (D-Ohio)

H.R.8255: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023

Sponsor: Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio)

S.4543: James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023

Sponsor: Jack Reed (D-R.I.)

H.R.2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023

Sponsor: Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.)

H.R.7535: Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act

Sponsor: Ro Khanna (D-Calif.)

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Lobbyists

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Sean McGlynn Staff Asst/Asst to Chief of Staff, Senator Mikulski
Barton Gordon U.S. Congressman
Steven Valentine Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith
John McHugh U.S. Congressman; Secretary of the U. S. Army
Dennis Potter Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm
Stacy Ettinger Staff Atty/Chief, AD/CVD Regulation/Assoc Ch Cnsl, DoC, Office of Genl Cnsl; Trade Cnsl detailee from DoC to JEC; Dep Staff Dir, JEC; Sr Cnsl, Sen Schumer; Sr Cnsl/Acting Dep Staff Dir/Ch Cnsl/Dem Ch Cnsl, Sen Comm Rules & Admin
Scott Gelbman Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer
James Walsh U.S. Congressman
Andrew Tabler Research Assistant, House Armed Services Committee; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Senate Affairs
Eugene Shestakov Staff Assistant, Senator Dan Sullivan
Matthew Manning Legislative Director, Congressman Jimmy Panetta; Military Legislative Assistant, Congressman Brad Ashford; Legislative Aid, Senator Mark Udall
Paul Stimers n/a
Steven McCain n/a
Tim Peckinpaugh n/a
R. Paul Stimers n/a
Doug Hall 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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