Lobbying Relationship

Client

BYTEDANCE INC.

Internet technology company More records

Lobbying firm

COVINGTON & BURLING LLP

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  • Provide advice on technology policy issues.

Duration: to

General Issues: Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV

Spending: about $140,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2019: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate

Related Foreign Entities: Bytedance Ltd. (Grand Cayman KY1-1112, CAY); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%; ByteTeam Ltd. (owns approximately 22% of ByteDance Ltd.) (Tortola, VG1110, IVB); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 22%; Bytedance LTD Cayman (Grand Cayman KY1-1112, CAY); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%

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?
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 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
Samantha Clark Senate Armed Services Committee (Deputy Staff Director and General Counsel; Deputy General Counsel; Counsel) Senate Armed Services Committee (Deputy Staff Director and General Counsel; Deputy General Counsel; Counsel)
Lindsey Tonsager Congressional intern, Senator Tom Daschle, June-August 2002
Morgan Schreurs Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Oversight & Investigations Law Clerk (May-July 2016, August-December 2017) Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Oversight & Investigations Law Clerk (May-July 2016, August-December 2017)
Anne Pence 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.

Termination
Registration
Q3 Report
Registration

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

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