Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid Obo American Public Transportation Association
District of Columbia
29 filings from 1 registrant · 2019–2026 · latest filed Jul 14, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$570K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$570K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
29 filings
$570K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
29 filings
$570K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 35 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Todd Bertoson Capitol Hill Policy Group LLCCovered position: ​Legislative Assistant, Sen. Ted Stevens; Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee; Staff Director, Senate Commerce Committee30 filingsthrough 2026
- James Reid Capitol Hill Policy Group LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV; Deputy Staff Director, Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee; Senior LA, Sen. Rockefeller; Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Max Sandlin; Senior Projects Assistant/LA, Rep. Paul Kanjorski30 filingsthrough 2026
- Naomie Droll Capitol Hill Policy Group LLCCovered position: Legal Intern, U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of the Solicitor; Legal Intern, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs; Assistant Management Intern, Bureau of Indian Affairs15 filingsthrough 2025
The filings
The 20 most recent of 29 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: kountoupes-denham-carr-reid-obo-american-public-transportation-association.