Congressional trades

What it is

Under the STOCK Act, members of the House and Senate must disclose stock trades over $1,000 made by themselves, their spouses and their dependent children. They report each trade as a dollar range, such as $1,001–$15,000, not an exact amount.

Who files it

Each member, on a periodic transaction report (PTR) filed with the House Clerk or the Senate.

How current

Members have up to 45 days to report a trade, so some trades appear weeks after they happened. We collect new House reports every few hours and Senate reports once a day.

Worth knowing

The ranges are wide, and a spouse's trade is not necessarily the member's own decision. We match assets to companies automatically, so check the filing before relying on a single row. A few rows dated after their own filing, usually a misread scan, are left out. Senate trades come from an independent public copy of the Senate's electronic filings, because the Senate's own site doesn't allow automated access. Each one links to the official report. The copy starts with reports filed in 2014, leaves out paper filings, and is missing a small share of lines, so a senator's list can be incomplete. Committee overlap describes jurisdiction only; it does not show that a trade was improper. It uses committee assignments in the 119th Congress and checks trades dated since 3 January 2025.

All of this comes from public filings.