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-rights-of-america.
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.
ECN
5 filings
$80K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
5 filings
$80K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 filings
$180K 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.
114th Congress
Traditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 2015
24 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1854116th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 201923 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3982117th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 202121 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2111119th CongressTo amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to exempt the premium cigar industry from certain regulations.17 filingsthrough 2026
S. 294115th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 201716 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1639112th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 201116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 438117th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 202115 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2339116th CongressProtecting American Lungs and Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 202014 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1461112th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 201113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1486118th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 202312 filingsthrough 2024
S. 107118th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 202312 filingsthrough 2024
S. 441114th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 201512 filingsthrough 2016
S. 772113th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 201312 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Roderick D. HallK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Asst Administrator for Government Affairs, FAA; Deputy Chief of Staff/LA/District Outreach Director, Rep Johnson12 filingsthrough 2021
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman11 filingsthrough 2017
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman10 filingsthrough 2017
Mary Burke BakerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: IRS Detailee to Senate Finance Committee10 filingsthrough 2017
Sean McglynnK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/Asst to Chief of Staff, Senator Mikulski9 filingsthrough 2020
Todd WootenHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: LA, Counsel, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Leg. Dir, Sen. Debbie Stabenow; Prof. Staff, Sen. Agriculture Cmte., Prof. Staff, Sen. Energy & Natural Resources Cmte., Prof. Staff, Sen. Finance Cmte.7 filingsthrough 2024
Andres GilK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2015
Michael PhillipsThe Rogich Communications Group7 filingsthrough 2013
Jeffrey J. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman6 filingsthrough 2021
Mary LandrieuMary LandrieuCovered position: U.S. Senator (1997-2015)6 filingsthrough 2016
