Congress trades: stock trading by members of Congress
The trades members of the Senate and the House report for themselves, their spouses and their dependent children, newest disclosure first. Each business day the reports filed since the last read are added, and the trades first disclosed over the last week, month or quarter are totalled, with the companies traded most.
What This Page Shows
Each row is one transaction from a periodic transaction report: the date it was first disclosed, the date of the trade and the days between them, the member with their party and state (and district, for the House), the company, the type (purchase, full or partial sale, exchange), the amount range, whose account it was in, and a link to the report itself on the Senate or House disclosure site.
How the Disclosures Work
The STOCK Act of 2012 requires members of Congress to report a purchase, sale or exchange of stocks, bonds and other securities worth more than $1,000 within 30 days of learning of it and no later than 45 days after the trade, including trades in a spouse's or dependent child's account. Some reports arrive later, and the page shows the lag as filed. A report gives the amount as a range ($1,001 to $15,000, $15,001 to $50,000, and so on up to over $50 million; a few give an exact amount), so totals here are counts of trades, not dollar sums.
Amended Reports and Repeated Lines
A member can amend a report, and an amended report usually lists its trades again; reports whose periods overlap can list a trade twice too. A trade a later report lists again (the same member, trade date, security, type, amount range and owner, with the same note or one added or dropped) is shown once, dated by its first disclosure, so an amendment filed months later does not make an old trade look new. Within one report every line is its own trade, so identical trades in two accounts count as two, and a later report listing a trade more times than the first adds the difference. A line repeated with the same reported details, however it spells the member's name, is counted once. On the busiest disclosure days a line the source later corrects or withdraws can stay beside the corrected one.
Party Labels
The party shown is the member's on the trade date, from public congressional records: a member who switched parties carries the party of the day, an independent is shown with the party they caucus with, and a trade made before a member took office or after they left shows no party.
How Trades Are Matched to Companies
A report names a ticker as it was on the trade date, and tickers change hands: a renamed company keeps its history (Facebook's trades under FB belong to Meta today), while a ticker another company later took does not pass the old company's trades to the new one. From February 2021 a trade is matched by the security that traded under its ticker on that date, unless the report describes another company of ours (a Meta purchase filed as FB in 2025, when FB was a fund, is Meta's; a ticker that never was the described company's matches nothing); before then, only when the report's description of the security is the company's name. Trades in bonds, funds, private stock and other securities without a listed ticker of ours are listed with what the report names.