Mr. Congress

Mr. Market shows up every day with a price. Mr. Congress shows up weeks later with his trades. Every stock trade disclosed in the last 12 months, from official House and Senate filings, plus the Cabinet, the White House, the Fed and agency heads.

Filings as of

6,444trades disclosed
134members trading
$285m–$854mreported volume
55%of trades were buys
27 daysmedian delay
19%of trades filed late
House103 of 439 members traded
439
  • Democrats 45/217
  • Independents 0/1
  • Republicans 58/221
Senate30 of 100 members traded
100
  • Democrats 10/45
  • Independents 1/2
  • Republicans 19/53

One dot per sitting member. Brighter and larger means more trades disclosed; gold rings mark the 10 most active.

Where few were watching

Quiet Bets

First purchases of little-known companies, worth under $2.0bn on the day, by members of Congress and senior officials in the administration, in stocks few others in Washington touched. The trades where the fewest people were watching.

Unusual activity worth a closer look. Not evidence of wrongdoing.

Quiet bets
32
Buyers · 9 in Congress, 3 in the administration
12
Median vs SPY
−18.3%
Beat SPY
28%

Every quiet bet32 first buys, newest first

  • Gold edge: someone else in Congress or the administration also made a first buy of this stock
  • Small · ~$: company size on the day it was bought (orange under $300m)
  1. OLNOlin Corporation
    Small · ~$1.9bn

    Lisa C. McClainR · MI · House

    Bought Sep 14, 2026 · $15,001 – $50,000Spouse

    Since
    −10.2%
    vs SPY
    −11.6%
    Disclosed
    28d later
    Nobody else in Washington traded itPTR ↗
  2. MSBMesabi Trust
    Micro · ~$289m

    Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr.D · CA · House

    Bought Jul 31, 2026 · $15,001 – $50,000

    Since
    −12.9%
    vs SPY
    −16.1%
    Disclosed
    35d later
    Nobody else in Washington traded itPTR ↗
  3. USPHU.S. Physical Therapy, Inc.
    Small · ~$1.1bn

    Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr.D · CA · House

    Bought Jul 16, 2026 · $1,001 – $15,000

    Since
    +18.0%
    vs SPY
    +15.3%
    Disclosed
    50d later
    Nobody else in Washington traded itPTR ↗
  4. VOYGVoyager Technologies, Inc.
    Small · ~$1.9bn

    Maria Elvira SalazarR · FL · House

    Bought Apr 14, 2026 · $1,001 – $15,000

    Since
    −19.5%
    vs SPY
    −30.8%
    Disclosed
    24d later
    Nobody else in Washington traded itPTR ↗
  5. PTONPeloton Interactive, Inc.
    Small · ~$1.7bn

    Maria Elvira SalazarR · FL · House

    Bought Mar 19, 2026 · $1,001 – $15,000

    Since
    +34.2%
    vs SPY
    +16.8%
    Disclosed
    33d later
  6. CDRECadre Holdings, Inc.
    Small · ~$1.4bn

    Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr.D · CA · House

    Bought Mar 16, 2026 · $1,001 – $15,000

    Since
    −17.1%
    vs SPY
    −33.0%
    Disclosed
    22d later
    Nobody else in Washington traded itPTR ↗

Unusual is not wrongdoing. Members, officials and their families buy small companies for many ordinary reasons, and a stock that rose afterwards proves nothing about why it was bought. These are simply the trades where little public attention was on the company, so they are the ones most worth reading closely. Company size is estimated for the day of purchase (today's market cap scaled by the price change since), funds are left out, and stocks traded only over the counter are not covered.

Most traded stocks

The names the most members bought or sold.

  1. 36
    AAPLApple Inc.28 members
    38
  2. 39
    MSFTMicrosoft Corporation27 members
    54
  3. 32
    NVDANVIDIA Corporation20 members
    26
  4. 18
    AMZNAmazon.com, Inc.18 members
    25
  5. 27
    GOOGLAlphabet Inc.17 members
    22
  6. 14
    METAMeta Platforms, Inc.17 members
    21
  7. 17
    BRK.BBerkshire Hathaway Inc.15 members
    18
  8. 23
    HDHome Depot, Inc.14 members
    22
  9. 13
    CVXChevron Corporation14 members
    10
  10. 17
    UNHUnitedHealth Group Incorporated13 members
    17
  11. 15
    PGProcter & Gamble Company13 members
    15
  12. 14
    GSGoldman Sachs Group, Inc.13 members
    13
Ranked by how many members traded each stock. Dots show who, by party. Counts are trades, not dollars.

Late to the floor

The public sees a trade weeks after it happens.

Days from trade to disclosure
18%0–15 days
44%16–30
19%31–45
2%46–90
17%90+

Median 27 days. 19% of trades were disclosed after the STOCK Act's 45-day limit. The standard penalty is a $200 late fee.

31% of trades were made in a spouse's or dependent child's account.

Most active in Congress

Ranked by trades disclosed. Pick anyone to see every trade they reported.

Buys Sells · bar length is trades disclosed · pick anyone to see their trades

All 134 members, each with their own page

Every trade

Congress and the administration, newest disclosures first. "Since" is the stock's move from the trade date to today, coloured for buys; options and bonds show none.

DisclosedWhoTradeAssetAmountOwnerDelaySinceSource
Oct 19traded Oct 16SellGOOGAlphabet Inc.$50,001 – $100,000Self3d−0.2%PTR ↗
Oct 19traded Oct 16SellWSBCWesBanco, Inc.$1,001 – $15,000Self3d+1.1%PTR ↗
Oct 19traded Sep 28BuyDDOGDatadog, Inc.$50,001 – $100,000Joint21d−4.6%PTR ↗
Oct 19traded Sep 28BuyELEstee Lauder Companies, Inc.$50,001 – $100,000Joint21d+11.0%PTR ↗
Oct 19traded Sep 28BuyGHGuardant Health, Inc.$15,001 – $50,000Joint21d−8.3%PTR ↗
Oct 19traded Sep 28SellVSATViaSat, Inc.$50,001 – $100,000Joint21d−16.0%PTR ↗
Oct 19traded Sep 28SellWMTWalmart Inc.$50,001 – $100,000Joint21d+8.4%PTR ↗
Oct 19traded Sep 4SellTYGTortoise Energy Infrastructure Corporation$1,001 – $15,000Spouse45d−9.1%PTR ↗
Oct 16traded Sep 18BuyNOKBFNOKIA A SHS$15,001 – $50,000Spouse28d−14.5%PTR ↗
Oct 16traded Aug 24SellBACBank of America Corporation$50,001 – $100,000Spouse53d−18.3%PTR ↗
Oct 15traded Oct 12SellPGProcter & Gamble Company$1,001 – $15,000Self3d+4.0%PTR ↗
Oct 15traded Oct 9BuyTAT&T Inc.$1,001 – $15,000Self6d+5.6%PTR ↗
Oct 15traded Oct 9BuyFITBFifth Third Bancorp$1,001 – $15,000Self6d+3.5%PTR ↗
Oct 15traded Oct 9BuyRPMRPM International Inc.$1,001 – $15,000Self6d+3.0%PTR ↗
Oct 15traded Sep 25BuyCharlotte-Meckle HLTHbond$250,001 – $500,000Spouse20d—PTR ↗
Oct 15traded Sep 24SellU.S. Treasury Billbond$250,001 – $500,000Spouse21d—PTR ↗
Oct 15traded Sep 3BuyCA ST GO UTXbond$250,001 – $500,000Spouse42d—PTR ↗
Oct 15traded Sep 3BuyCA ST GO UTXbond$100,001 – $250,000Spouse42d—PTR ↗
Oct 14traded Sep 24BuyTX Trans Commn TPK 5% Tran Due 08/15/42bond$15,001 – $50,000Joint20d—PTR ↗
Oct 14traded Sep 22SellAZOAutoZone, Inc.$15,001 – $50,000Spouse22d+9.2%PTR ↗
Newest 20 of 8,136 trades · 6,444 Congress · 1,692 administration

Method

Every periodic transaction report filed between October 21, 2025 and October 21, 2026, read straight from the official sources: 532 House reports from the Clerk of the House and 153 Senate reports from the Senate's eFD system. Party and seat come from the public-domain congress-legislators roster of sitting members; senators are matched by surname, and those who have left office are shown as former senators. Cabinet and White House trades come from 82 OGE Form 278-T reports posted by the Office of Government Ethics and on whitehouse.gov, and are counted separately from Congress's figures.

  • Amounts are ranges. The STOCK Act asks for bands such as $1,001–$15,000, never exact figures, so volumes show the sum of every band's floor and ceiling. An open-ended band ("Over $50,000,000") adds only its floor to both.
  • Disclosure lags the trade. Members have 30 days from learning of a trade, and no more than 45 days from the trade itself. Delay counts days from trade to filing; for a 278-T, to the filer's signature date. Filing extensions are not read, so a trade filed under an extension still counts as late.
  • "Filed late" is a share of trades, not of members or reports. A single catch-up report from one prolific trader can carry hundreds of late trades and dominate it.
  • Family accounts count. Trades for a spouse or dependent child are disclosed on the same reports and included here, labelled by owner. A 278-T names the account only in an endnote, so an official's trade is assumed to be their own unless an endnote says otherwise.
  • "Buys vs SPY" averages each stock purchase's move since the trade date minus the S&P 500 ETF's move over the same days, equally weighted, for members with at least 10 priced purchases. It ignores amounts and whether the stock was later sold. It describes what happened, not skill.
  • "Since" is the stock's move, from the trade date to the latest close, and is coloured only for purchases. Options and bonds show none: an underlying stock's move says little about what an option made or lost.
  • Quiet Bets lists first buys in little-known companies by members of Congress and senior officials: stock purchases that were the buyer's first trade in that stock in the window, in a company worth under $2.0bn on the trade date, and either traded by no more than two otherpeople across both branches or started by more than one (those are highlighted as "Same quiet bet, several buyers", with Congress-and-administration pairs first). Size on the trade date is Nasdaq's current market cap scaled by the price change since, so a company that shrank after the purchase is not mistaken for a small one. Funds are excluded. They flag where little attention was on a stock, not wrongdoing.
  • Amendments replace what they correct. A House transaction marked as amended replaces the earlier entry for the same stock and owner; a Senate amendment replaces the whole report. Delays are measured from the first disclosure, and amendments to reports from before this window are left out. A trade repeated in a later filing is counted once.
  • Paper filings are linked, not read. 83 reports in this window were scanned paper forms that cannot be parsed reliably. They are listed below so nothing is hidden.
83 paper filings — open the originals