Watching the government
Seven ways to watch Congress
Tracking Income in Congress.
What Congress votes on, in plain language, and when a yes bundled unrelated measures together.
The stocks members trade, including in the industries their own committees oversee.
Who funds each member's campaigns, the money behind the vote.
Who pays to work the bills, the firms that file the work, and whose desks that money reaches.
Who pays to fly members and their staff, and where those trips actually land.
What members report earning beyond congressional salary, year by year.
One letter per member: their funding, their trading, and how they back their own voters.
Every figure here is a floor: at least what the forms report.
Members with a 2025 form
Income beyond salary, by age.
Each dot is one member with a counted 2025 form. Dots further right reported more. The dollar scale grows tenfold at each step.
Rings in the first lane reported none; dots in the second reported under $1,000. Age is as of October 9, 2026. One member’s form lists only tax-deferred accounts, which give no income amount, so there is no dot.
Beyond salary, 2025
Who made the most.
2025 ranks members whose 2025 form is counted in full. Largest first, ties A to Z by surname. Ranges overlap, so neighbors may have reported the same.
Investments, 2025
Where investment income comes from.
- Dividends
- 33%$42.3M
- Capital gains, rent and royalties
- 23%$30.6M
- Interest
- 12%$15.0M
- Other
- 32%$41.6M
Investment income on the 2025 forms of 442 members, split by the type each asset reports. Each figure is the smallest amount of a printed range, summed; a range can reach several times its floor. Other is income the form does not itemize, such as partnership and trust income, plus $35,003 whose type the form does not give. Holdings include a spouse’s and children’s. Tax-deferred accounts are not reported.
For each member, the income their forms report beyond congressional salary. Investment income is reported in ranges, so each year counts its smallest possible amount: the true figure can only be higher. A member’s own congressional pay is salary and is not counted. A year not counted in full is left out, never counted as zero. Members with no counted year yet have no dot and no place in the lists; search still finds them. Older paper forms and amended filings are still being counted and can change any figure or order.