- Lobbying
- Lobbying by Ogaden Community of USA
Lobbying Relationship
Lobbyists
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Lobbyist | Covered positions? |
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Mark Walker | Chief of Staff, US House of Representatives Chief of Staff, US House of Representatives Chief of Staff, US House of RepresentativesChief of Staff, US House of Representatives |
Gregory Simpkins | Staff Director, U.S. House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights |
Karl Von Batten | 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.
Q1 Report
Q4 Report
Lobbying Issues
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
State - Dept of (DOS)
Executive Office of the President (EOP)
Type of Issue
Q3 Report
Lobbying Issues
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
State - Dept of (DOS)
Executive Office of the President (EOP)
Type of Issue
Q2 Report
Lobbying Issues
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
State - Dept of (DOS)
Executive Office of the President (EOP)
Type of Issue
Q1 Report
Lobbying Issues
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
State - Dept of (DOS)
Executive Office of the President (EOP)
Type of Issue
Q4 Report
Lobbying Issues
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
State - Dept of (DOS)
Executive Office of the President (EOP)
Type of Issue
Registration
Issue(s) they said they’d lobby about: Bring to the attention of Congress and lobby for US action per Ethiopian, and Chinese-government backed activities in Ogaden. This includes forced migration (Ogaden villagers are being forced off their lands to make way for oil exploration), the deaths of Ogaden villagers due to a mysterious illness that many Ogadens believe results from substandard drilling practices (possible toxic waste getting into the drinking water supply) by the Chinese government-backed oil company, GCL-Poly, national security concerns (the Chinese are building a pipeline to transport the gas from Ogaden to Djibouti, where the Chinese have a military base. This will allow China to increase its military footprint in Eastern Africa..
Termination
Lobbying Issues
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Type of Issue
Q1 Report
Lobbying Issues
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Type of Issue
Registration
Issue(s) they said they’d lobby about: Bring to the attention of Congress and lobby for US action per Ethiopian, and Chinese-government backed activities in Ogaden. This includes forced migration (Ogaden villagers are being forced off their lands to make way for oil exploration), the deaths of Ogaden villagers due to a mysterious illness that many Ogadens believe results from substandard drilling practices (possible toxic waste getting into the drinking water supply) by the Chinese government-backed oil company, GCL-Poly, national security concerns (the Chinese are building a pipeline to transport the gas from Ogaden to Djibouti, where the Chinese have a military base. This will allow China to increase its military footprint in Eastern Africa..
Registration
Issue(s) they said they’d lobby about: Bring to the attention of Congress and lobby for US action per Ethiopian, and Chinese-government backed activities in Ogaden. This includes forced migration (Ogaden villagers are being forced off their lands to make way for oil exploration), the deaths of Ogaden villagers due to a mysterious illness that many Ogadens believe results from substandard drilling practices (possible toxic waste getting into the drinking water supply) by the Chinese government-backed oil company, GCL-Poly, national security concerns (the Chinese are building a pipeline to transport the gas from Ogaden to Djibouti, where the Chinese have a military base. This will allow China to increase its military footprint in Eastern Africa..
Q4 Report
Lobbying Issues
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Type of Issue
Registration
Issue(s) they said they’d lobby about: Work to build concrete support for U.S. congressional and executive action to provide humanitarian assistance to the Ogaden Region; push for policies and activities beneficial to an inclusive Ogaden Region government, push for an investigation into extrajudicial killings and human rights abuses committed against the Ogaden-Somalis by Ethiopian federal troops..
Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate