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
22 filings
$860K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
22 filings
$860K 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act3 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.3 filingsthrough 2022
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: via-transportation-inc.
spend on filings that named this issue
117th Congress
Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act of 2021
2 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 8870119th CongressBUILD America 250 Act1 filingthrough 2026
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.
Covered position: Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant and projects Director, Legislative Assistant - Senator Michael Enzi, R-WY; Legislative Director - Rep. Michael Burgess, R-TX
9 filingsthrough 2022
David Paul PelusoKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff - Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-WA; Chief of Staff, Communications Director, Legislative Assistant, Deputy Press Secretary and Executive Assistant - Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-FL8 filingsthrough 2026
Lisa KountoupesKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Deputy Asst to the President & House Liaison,Special Asst to the President for Legislative Affairs,Asst. Director for Legislative Affairs at OMB,Special Asst to Undersecretary,Dept of Energy,Policy Advisor to Chairman of Energy&Commerce Committee8 filingsthrough 2022
Lindsay GarciaKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Clerk, Senate Committee on Appropriations Energy and Water Development Subcommittee; Policy Director, Senate Republican Policy Committee; Legislative Director, Energy Policy Director & Chief Counsel, Counsel, Senator Lamar Alexander R-TN.5 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 6 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
