Congressional stock trades

Congress doesn’t require its members to put their money in a blind trust. Instead, the law requires them to disclose what they trade. Under the STOCK Act, if a lawmaker, their spouse, or their child buys or sells a stock, bond, or fund, they have 45 days to file a report on it, called a periodic transaction report. It doesn’t list an exact dollar amount either, only a range, such as $1,001 to $15,000. So every trade below shows the range as filed, not a precise figure.

We match each trade to the stock’s closing price on the day it happened, then track how that price has moved since. That shows whether the timing looks good in hindsight. It doesn’t reveal why the trade happened or what the member knew at the time. Some reports arrive well past the 45-day deadline; we flag those late filings so you can see who is actually keeping to the schedule Congress set for itself.

Sort by member, ticker, chamber, or party, or search for a stock to see who else has traded it recently. None of this implies wrongdoing. Trading stocks is legal, and disclosing it is simply the rule Congress chose for policing itself. We gather filings from both the House and Senate onto one page, ordered so a pattern is easier to spot than it would be buried in a scanned PDF.