Watching the government
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Tracking Trading 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.
One letter per member: their funding, their trading, and how they back their own voters.
Members of Congress may legally trade individual stocks, including in the very industries their own committees oversee. We pull every disclosed trade, match it to the committees a member sits on, and flag where the two overlap. Every row links to the official filing.
Look up a member
The record so far
What members disclosed.
- 39,157
- disclosed trades
- $2.9B
- estimated volume
- 18%
- filed late
of 539 current members, a majority, have disclosed no individual-stock trades at all.
House
263 of 439 abstain
60%
Senate
41 of 100 abstain
41%
Most active
Who trades the most.
- 1Josh Gottheimer3,495
- 2Gilbert Cisneros2,749
- 3Susie Lee1,283
- 4Daniel Goldman1,269
- 5Rohit Khanna1,100
- 6Sheldon Whitehouse1,030
- 8Lois Frankel955
- 9
- 10
- 1Thomas H Tuberville1,499
- 2Lisa McClain1,426
- 3Kevin Hern887
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- 9John Boozman482
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Apparent conflicts
Traded a sector they oversee.
42 members traded a single stock in a sector a committee they sit on oversees. Open a member for the trades.
How ownership is read
The flag tests only the trades that belong to the member, not a spouse or a child. The Senate feed marks the member’s own trades with an owner code. The House Clerk feed does not, so a House trade’s ownership is inferred from the filing and shown with an “owner inferred” note; any House member who files a family trade elsewhere is set aside from that inference. Custodial and joint accounts are never read as the member’s own.
- Jerry Moran,R-KSCommunication Services, Industrials, Information Technology, Consumer Staples, Materials61trades
How these are counted
A member’s own trades in a single stock whose sector a committee they sit on oversees. Funds and family-member trades are excluded, and committee membership is matched to the current roster. This is where duty and holding overlap. It is not a finding that either was traded on. A symbol marked with an asterisk was matched from the company name on the filing. The filer did not write a symbol down.
Late disclosure
Who files late.
The STOCK Act gives a member up to 45 days to disclose a trade. These members blew past that most often, by share of their trades and by count.
- 1Grace Meng100%
- 2
- 3Sean Casten90%
- 4
- 5
- 6Sara Jacobs77%
- 8
- 10
- 1
- 2Keith Alan Self100%
- 4Tim Walberg94%
- 5
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- 7Katie Britt85%
- 9Julia Letlow82%
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Look up any member’s disclosed trades in the full index, by state.
The traders on the ballot are ranked in Elections, next to the money behind each race.
Support for banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks, across both parties. Members may still legally trade today.
Where each member stands