Two public records sit next to Congressional trading on a company page. Congressional holdings shows which members of Congress own the company's stock, from their annual financial disclosure reports. Corporate PAC shows the money the company's political action committee raised and gave, from Federal Election Commission filings.
Where to find them
Open a company's Discourse page, for example palanor.com/discourse/companies/LMT. The Congressional holdings and Corporate PAC blocks sit under Congressional trading. A company no member holds, or with no matched PAC, doesn't show the block.
The public page palanor.com/congress-trades/holdings has the view across all companies: the share of members holding S&P 500 stocks, sector exposure, the companies held by the most members, and a link to each member's report. Switch between Trades and Holdings at the top of the page.
Congressional holdings
- **Members holding.** How many members listed the company's shares or options on their annual report with a value at year end, held by themselves, a spouse or a dependent child. House and Senate are shown separately. A stock reported with no value, usually because it was sold during the year, is not counted.
- **Range midpoint.** Members report a value range for each asset, not an amount. Palanor adds up the middle of each range and labels it range midpoint. It is an estimate, not a reported figure. Open-ended ranges such as Over $1,000,000 count at their floor.
- **By year.** One row per report year, from 2016. Reports are due May 15 with extensions to mid-August, so a year counts as complete only after that.
- **Members, alphabetical.** Each name links to the member's page, which lists every asset on their report with the value range as filed.
Palanor doesn't total a member's holdings, rank members or colour anything by party. Only electronically filed reports are read. Reports filed on paper are counted but not read, because machine reading of scanned forms didn't meet the accuracy bar for publishing without a person checking every row. Account names, property locations and the names of private people owed money by a member are not stored.
Corporate PAC
- **The committees.** The PACs whose connected organization is the company, each linked to its page on fec.gov. A PAC counts only when that name matches the company exactly, or a person checked it.
- **By cycle.** Two-year election cycles: money raised, money spent, contributions to federal candidates, contributions to party committees and cash on hand. The current cycle is still being reported.
- **Party.** Contributions to candidates are split by the candidate's filed party. Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor party counts as Democratic.
- **Largest recipients.** The candidates who received the most in the latest cycle, with party, office and state.
Palanor reads committee data only. It never downloads the file of individual contributors and never stores anyone's name or address, as federal law requires.
Signals
Three signals can go in scenarios like any other: Share of Members of Congress Holding S&P 500 Stocks, Tech Share of Congress Members' S&P 500 Stock Holdings (both yearly) and S&P 500 Corporate PAC Contributions to Federal Candidates (monthly).
API and Palanor MCP
Holdings aggregates are at /v1/congress-holdings on the Palanor API and through palanor_congress_holdings on the Palanor MCP. Pass a ticker for one company, or leave it out for the view across companies. Member-level records are not available through the API. PAC data is at /v1/pacs and palanor_company_pacs. Every response carries its source.
Sources
Annual reports come from the Office of the Clerk of the House and the Senate Office of Public Records. The law allows their use by news media for dissemination to the public, which is how Palanor publishes them. PAC data comes from the Federal Election Commission's bulk data. Both are public records of the U.S. Government.