Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: cigar-association-of-america-inc.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
110 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Postal
POS
16 filings
$805K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
13 filings
$505K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
116th Congress
Protecting American Lungs and Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2020
22 filingsthrough 2020
S. 411117th CongressMOMMA’s Act18 filingsthrough 2022
S. 438117th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 202118 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2411116th CongressTobacco to 21 Act15 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 293116th CongressYouth Vaping Prevention Act of 201915 filingsthrough 2020
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Dotchin & Associates, LLC
21 filingsthrough 2023
Norman SharpCigar Association of America, Inc.17 filingsthrough 2011
Christine Hewitt LanzaCigar Association of America, Inc.15 filingsthrough 2018
David M OzgoCigar Association of America, Inc.10 filingsthrough 2024
Harry J KatrichisThe Advocacy GroupCovered position: Chief Counsel, House Committee on Small Business9 filingsthrough 2013
Brian FojtikCigar Association of America, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2024
Patrick AndersonCigar Association of America, Inc.7 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth G. PritcharttCigar Association of America, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2019
Omar FrancoBecker & Poliakoff, P.A.Covered position: Former Chief of Staff for Representative Mario Diaz- Balart3 filingsthrough 2026
