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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
74 filings
$21.2M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
1 filing
$30K 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. 2910115th CongressPromoting Interagency Coordination for Review of Natural Gas Pipelines Act5 filingsthrough 2018
S.Con.Res. 14117th CongressA concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031.3 filingsthrough 2022
Alex OehlerTranscanada Pipelines, LtdCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant to Congressman Wally Herger39 filingsthrough 2026
Paul ElliottTranscanada Pipelines, Ltd25 filingsthrough 2016
Michael GarrisonTranscanada Pipelines, Ltd20 filingsthrough 2026
James P GordonTranscanada Pipelines, LtdCovered position: District Representative; Senior Policy Advisor to Congressman Stephen Lynch20 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 78 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: transcanada-pipelines-ltd.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
115th Congress
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
2 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3303115th CongressWater Quality Certification Improvement Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
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.
Anthony GiannettiTranscanada Pipelines, LtdCovered position: Legislative assistant, Congresswoman Candice Miller; Legislative Assistant Congressman Fred Upton; Special Assistant/Special Advisor/ Senior Advisor - Office of the Under Secretary for Science, Department of Energy.
17 filingsthrough 2026
Michael SmithTranscanada Pipelines, LtdCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Tom Coburn; Cloakroom Assistant, Senate Republican Cloakroom; Program and Policy Advisor, Chairman, FERC;13 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher PutalaPutalastrategiesCovered position: Professional Staff, Senate Judiciary Committee (1989-98)11 filingsthrough 2023
Nandini NarayanTranscanada Pipelines, LtdCovered position: Staff Assistant/scheduler - Rep. Ro Khanna; Legislative Assistant, Rep. T.J. Cox (D-CA); Member Services Associate, House Democratic Caucus, Rep. Aquiliar; Legislative Director, Rep. Chris Pappas;6 filingsthrough 2026
Charles E HarpleThe Mathis Harple Group6 filingsthrough 2009
Michael SansoneTranscanada Pipelines, Ltd5 filingsthrough 2026
Kyle CampbellTranscanada Pipelines, LtdCovered position: Senior Advisor to the Deputy Administrator of EPA; Policy Staff, Republican Study Committee, House of Representatives; Legislative Director/Legislative Asst, Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Tom McClintock; Legis. Correspondent, Senator Jeff Flake1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 7 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
