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: premium-cigar-association.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
47 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
35 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
30 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
19 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
16 filings
$330K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
6 filings
$130K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
1 filing
$74K on those filings
Banking
BAN
1 filing
$74K 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.
H.R. 3982117th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 202113 filingsthrough 2022
S. 9116th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 201910 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1854116th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 792113th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 20139 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1486118th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 20118th CongressRichard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 107118th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 464118th CongressNo Tax Subsidies for E-Cigarette and Tobacco Ads Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 567118th CongressRichard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 842117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Ryan Matthew ParadaPremium Cigar Association8 filingsthrough 2023
Robert BurgessConnector Inc.Covered position: Communications Director, Rep. Trey Hollingsworth; Communications Director, Rep. Mike Garcia4 filingsthrough 2026
Ryan Matthew ParadaConnector Inc.3 filingsthrough 2026
Matt DogaliPremium Cigar Association2 filingsthrough 2016
RICHARD WESTERDALE iiConnector Inc.Covered position: Senior Advisor, Department of State; Director, Energy Resources Bureau Policy Analysis and Public Diplomacy Office, Department of State1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 5 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
