April Congressional Stock Disclosures: MSFT Calls, SmartStop Timing, Verizon, Palantir, Andersen, Goldman

Six April 2026 congressional disclosure records set the main file: Josh Gottheimer's Microsoft calls; Kevin Hern's SmartStop, Texas Instruments, Accenture, and ICON sales; Jennifer McClellan's Verizon sale; Gilbert Cisneros' Palantir trust-account rows; Kelly Morrison's Andersen Corporation ownership-interest sales; and Maria Elvira Salazar's Goldman and Citigroup purchases.

The April universe held 378 indexed rows across 32 members and 234 tickers or securities. The lower-bound disclosed value was $5,079,330. The estimated upper bound was $14.76 million. Forty-eight rows lacked usable amount ranges. Eighteen rows had April transaction dates; the rest reached the public file in April after earlier transactions.

Josh Gottheimer / Microsoft Calls

House PTR 20034305 lists two joint-account Microsoft call-option purchases dated March 25, 2026. Both expire June 18. One row fell in the $50,001 to $100,000 range. The other fell in the $500,001 to $1 million range.

House Financial Services held a tokenization and capital-market modernization hearing on March 25. The Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence subcommittee held a financial-regulator technology hearing on March 26. Gottheimer sits on House Financial Services, including Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence. The House Clerk also lists him on Intelligence, including NSA and cyber-related subcommittee work.

Microsoft's Q1 lobbying filing named AI, cloud computing, cybersecurity, procurement, defense, quantum, federal IT modernization, SEC, FTC, FCC, GSA, NIST, OSTP, OMB, Treasury, DHS, DOD, DOJ, and the White House Office. USAspending records showed Microsoft federal cloud and cyber-support exposure through DOD/DISA, Army Cyber Command, Navy/PEO Digital, Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, SSA, USDA, and other agencies. Microsoft filed April 29 earnings showing Microsoft Cloud revenue of $54.5 billion, Azure and other cloud services revenue up 40 percent, and an AI business above a $37 billion annual revenue run rate.

Kevin Hern / SmartStop, Texas Instruments, Accenture

House PTR 20034262 lists Hern's SmartStop Self Storage REIT sale on March 18, 2026, in the $500,001 to $1 million range. SmartStop dated a $300 million common-stock prospectus supplement one day later.

Hern sits on Ways and Means, including Tax and Health. Texas Instruments reported Q1 lobbying on corporate tax, semiconductor policy, the Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit, export controls, the Chip Security Act, AI Overwatch, and federal research funding. Accenture reported lobbying on AI, cybersecurity, government procurement, IT modernization, tax, health programs, CHIPS implementation, data centers, and workforce issues. USAspending tied Accenture Federal Services to Department of Education, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Energy, Commerce, DHS/CBP, and Treasury/IRS work.

Jennifer McClellan / Verizon

House PTR 20034311 lists one Verizon partial sale dated April 7, 2026, in the $100,001 to $250,000 range.

McClellan sits on Energy and Commerce, including Communications and Technology. The subcommittee covers telecom, broadband, wireless and wireline communications, public-safety communications, FCC, NTIA, cybersecurity, privacy, and communications networks. On March 4, McClellan introduced the AI-Ready Networks Act, directing NTIA to report on AI integration into commercial telecom networks. She also co-led the First Responder Network Authority Reauthorization Act, covering FirstNet, NTIA oversight, public-safety broadband, outage notices, and contract reporting.

A March 26 Communications and Technology hearing transcript listed McClellan present for “The Telecommunications Act of 1996: 30 Years Later.” Verizon's Q1 lobbying filings named FirstNet, H.R. 7386, BEAD, USF, spectrum, cybersecurity, privacy, AI in telecom, public-safety communications, FCC oversight, NTIA, and telecom contracting. Verizon's April 6 proxy discussed Frontier, fiber expansion, a $25 billion buyback authorization, dividends, and AI use. Verizon's April 27 earnings reported $34.4 billion in revenue, $5.1 billion in net income, broadband additions, raised adjusted EPS guidance, and $2.5 billion in Q1 share repurchases. USAspending showed Verizon telecom and network exposure across SSA, HHS, IRS, FBI, Interior, Labor, USDA, Education, Coast Guard, NOAA/NWS, FAA, and VA.

Gilbert Cisneros / Palantir

House PTR 20034285 shows a March 16 Palantir purchase and a March 16 partial sale inside a trust/subholding portfolio. The same PTR shows 150 Main Street Trust account notes tied to Bank of America or Wells Fargo Advisors. Amazon also appears as a March 16 purchase in the official filing.

Cisneros sits on Armed Services, with Intelligence and Special Operations relevance in the House Armed Services record. On March 26, HASC held a hearing on DOD enterprise IT, cloud, zero trust, cybersecurity, data capabilities, and digital networks. On April 16, HASC held a Defense Intelligence Enterprise hearing involving intelligence agencies, NSA/Cyber Command, NGA, and DIA context.

Palantir's Q1 lobbying record covered defense appropriations, Army intelligence programs, command and control, Air Force data analytics, NDAA, and battlefield domain awareness. USAspending records tied Palantir to USDA's Landmark Platform Initiative, IRS semantic/API and Compliance Hub work, and other federal data-platform obligations. ADM had USDA, sustainable aviation fuel, agriculture, fertilizer, carbon capture, tax, trade, EPA, DOE, Treasury, and USTR records. AeroVironment had DOD, UAS, autonomous systems, C-UAS, directed energy, cyber, NDAA, and defense appropriations records.

Kelly Morrison / Andersen Corporation [OI]

House PTR 20034213 says Andersen Corporation [OI], subholding of Investment Fund 1, described as Window Manufacturer, Bayport, WI.

House's asset-code table defines OI as ownership interest. The public ticker ANDG belongs to Andersen Group Inc., a San Francisco tax and financial-advisory company. Morrison's PTR points to the Bayport, Wisconsin window manufacturer.

The official filing lists seven partial sales of Andersen Corporation ownership interests. Transaction dates run from January 20, 2025 through March 15, 2026. All seven notifications are dated March 19, 2026. The report was signed April 2, 2026. The disclosed lower-bound total is $1,500,007.

Andersen Corporation's Q1 LDA filing covered housing, energy, tax, labor, tariffs, and H.R. 6644. Morrison voted yea on H.R. 6644, the Housing for the 21st Century Act, on February 9. She sits on Small Business subcommittees covering contracting, energy, rural firms, and supply chains.

Maria Elvira Salazar / Goldman And Citi

House PTR 20033993 lists Salazar's March 19 Goldman Sachs and Citigroup purchases across UBS brokerage and IRA account labels.

Salazar sits on Financial Services, including Capital Markets and National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions. Goldman and Citi sit directly inside that field. Their Q1 LDA records covered banking, capital, Dodd-Frank, market structure, digital assets, housing finance, tax, trade, stablecoins, Treasury, House, Senate, and financial-regulation measures.

Boeing, Honeywell, FedEx, and Cisco added government-facing rows to the same filing. Boeing reported defense, aerospace, FAA, NASA, commercial aviation certification, international sales, AUKUS, foreign military financing, Ex-Im, sanctions, and corporate tax issues. Honeywell reported aerospace, defense, DHS, FAA, NASA, DARPA, cybersecurity, advanced air mobility, energy, nuclear, and tax. FedEx reported transportation, aviation, trucking, labor, tax, China, roads, autonomous vehicles, and FAA implementation. Cisco reported procurement, CISA, AI, supply chains, NDAA, R&D tax, cyber, and export-control-adjacent technology.

Official Filing Corrections

Microsoft, SmartStop, Verizon, Palantir, Andersen, Goldman, and Citigroup appear with a filing, date, range, committee field, and second official record: LDA, SEC, USAspending, committee transcript, House vote, or asset-code table. The public filings list the transaction date, range, security name, transaction type, and sometimes account label. The trade initiator stays outside the form.

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Disclaimer: This article is for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Congressional trade data is sourced from publicly available financial disclosure filings. Timing correlations do not imply causation or foreknowledge. Not financial advice.