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Your representatives, August 2026

Where your members stand right now: the stock they trade, who funds them, and where they part ways with the voters who elected them. Assembled fresh from the record.

Nancy Pelosi
House · CA-11 · Democrat
C
The stock they trade
185
trades
$216.1M
est. volume
7
filed late
Who funds them
$10.2M
raised
52%
small donors
2%
from PACs
2023–2024 cycle
Where they stand
Red-Flag Protection Orders
Funds and creates a federal extreme-risk protection order: a court process letting police or family members ask a judge to temporarily remove firearms from a…
95% of Democratic voters want it, but Pelosi hasn't backed it.
Voted YES · Passed the House · 218-203
H.R. 1346, Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025
The bill makes year-round sale of E15 gasoline legal and rewrites the Renewable Fuel Standard rules for small refiners.
Broke with their party.
Ted Cruz
Senate · TX · Republican
B
The stock they trade
16
trades
$1.2M
est. volume
3
filed late
Who funds them
$107.1M
raised
44%
small donors
1%
from PACs
2019–2024 term
Where they stand
Universal Background Checks
Requires a background check for nearly all firearm sales, including private transfers between individuals.
81% of Republican voters want it, but Cruz hasn't backed it.
Voted NO · Became law · 71-29
H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026
The act funds much of the federal government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, packaging separate appropriations bills into one measure.
Broke with their party.
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Congress, August 2026
Disclose Dark Money
What voters want vs what Congress does
Republican
voters
85%
 
Republicans in
Congress
0%
Require any organization spending over $10,000 in an election to publicly identify donors above $10,000.
Where the two parties in Congress split
Universal Background Checks
In Congress: Democrats 97%  vs  Republicans 1%
Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act
Card networks and payment processors would be barred from tagging purchases at gun stores with a code that marks them as firearms sellers. The bill prohibits a payment card network from requiring, and any covered payment processor from assigning, a merchant category code that is used only or primarily for firearms retailers or that identifies a retailer as engaged in selling firearms, ammunition, firearm accessories, or firearm components. The Attorney General enforces it: within 90 days of enactment the Attorney General must set up a complaint process, investigate complaints, and on finding a violation send written notice requiring the network or processor to fix it within 30 days, after which the Attorney General may seek a federal court injunction. The bill creates no private right of action and preempts any state or local law regulating firearm retailer merchant category codes. It does not stop a network or processor from complying with laws on dispute processing, fraud, compliance management, data breaches, or transaction integrity. The Attorney General must report to Congress each year on the number and disposition of investigations.
In Congress: Democrats 2%  vs  Republicans 97%
Where voters part ways with their own party
Tax on Unrealized Gains
82% of Democratic voters want it, but 22% of Democrats in Congress back it.
Red-Flag Protection Orders
77% of Republican voters want it, but 0% of Republicans in Congress back it.
Disclosed stock trading, August 2026
431
trades
$12.9M
est. volume
0
filed late
Recently in Congress
Passed the House · 237-169
H.R. 4795, Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act of 2026
This bill conditions two kinds of federal higher education funding on an institution's dealings with Israel, described in the text as a major strategic partner defined by cross reference to section 4 of Public Law 113-296. It amends the Higher Education Act's Title IV rules so that an institution is ineligible for federal student aid funds if it engages in a nonexpressive commercial boycott of Israel, meaning a…
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Passed the House · 218-201
Protecting Domestic Mining Act of 2025
This bill expands which mining projects qualify for the FAST Act's coordinated federal permitting review process, and blocks a proposed rule that would have gone the other way. It adds mining and mineral processing to the FAST Act's definition of a covered project, the designation that lets a project use the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council's streamlined review under Title 41. It also bars the…
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Became law
21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
This law is a housing package spanning twelve titles. It reauthorizes the HOME Investment Partnerships program and rewrites how housing qualifies for it, raising the home-ownership purchase-price ceiling from 95 to 110 percent and extending eligibility to families earning up to 100 percent of area median income. It reforms federal housing counseling programs.
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Became law
Estimated Budgetary Effects of S. 2, the Secure America Act
Appropriates roughly $69.5 billion for border and immigration enforcement for fiscal year 2026, to remain available until September 30, 2029. Title I funds $9.55 billion for Border Patrol agents and support personnel doing work other than immigration and customs enforcement, $7.45 billion for Homeland Security Investigations (of which $108.5 million goes to child exploitation investigators and forensics analysts)…
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