Traded 425 companies, 61 linked to a committee seat (175 trades)
Financial Services: Capital Markets subcommittee
Education and Workforce: Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions subcommittee
Mostly in a spouse's account.
A Kadoa analysis found that 55 lawmakers or their family members bought or sold shares over 21 months in companies overseen by a committee they sit on.
Members who traded companies their committees oversee
Trades from 3 Jan 2025 to 12 Oct 2026
Traded companies their committees overseeTraded other stocksNo stock tradesClick a dark square to see that member's card
House · 41 matched
Senate · 14 matched
By member
Trades per company, darker means more:1 to 56 to 1516 or more
Traded 189 companies, 31 linked to a committee seat (75 trades)
Financial Services: Capital Markets subcommittee
Financial Services: Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence subcommittee
All in joint accounts.
Traded 46 companies, 15 linked to a committee seat (47 trades)
Energy and Commerce: Health subcommittee
Energy and Commerce: Communications and Technology subcommittee
Energy and Commerce: Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade subcommittee
The filings do not say whose account.
Traded 487 companies, 5 linked to a committee seat (46 trades)
Armed Services: Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation subcommittee
* Traded within a year of a House Oversight letter to the company
Spread across a spouse's account and dependent children's accounts.
Traded 430 companies, 12 linked to a committee seat (42 trades)
The filings do not say whose account.
Traded 250 companies, 16 linked to a committee seat (40 trades)
Transportation: Aviation subcommittee
Transportation: Highways and Transit subcommittee
Transportation: Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials subcommittee
The filings do not say whose account.
About the data
- Members of Congress are allowed to trade individual stocks, as long as they report each trade.
- These are stock trades that members of Congress reported for themselves, their spouses and their children from 3 Jan 2025 to 12 Oct 2026, taken from House and Senate disclosure filings.
- Only trades in individual companies count. Funds, ETFs and municipal bonds are left out, and so are filings reported twice.
- A trade is linked to a committee when the member sat on it that day and the committee oversees the company's main business. Tax committees only count through their health panels, which oversee Medicare, and only for drug, device, insurance and care companies. We also link defence and government contractors paid $100M or more by an agency the committee oversees, per USAspending, and companies whose CEO testified before it.
- We sorted companies into committees using SEC industry codes and each committee's written remit, with an AI model doing the first pass.
- Filings give value ranges, not exact amounts, so we count trades rather than dollars.
- Handing out the same committee seats at random gives about 50 members, so 55 is only a little above chance. 20 of our 200 random shuffles reached 55 or more.