STOCK Act × Committee Rosters
When Congress trades what it oversees
Disclosed trades in a sector the member's own committee regulates
Members of Congress sit on committees that write the rules for specific industries, and they also buy and sell stock. This page shows where those two facts meet: every disclosed trade in a sector one of the trader's own committees oversees.
1,846
Flagged trades
78
Members
18
Committees
13
Years covered
Showing 53 flagged trades from 2016.
2016-12-14
Jack Reed
Sits on Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-12-01
Susan M. Collins
Sits on Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-11-15
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-10-31
Bill Cassidy
Sits on Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-10-31
Bill Cassidy
Sits on Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-10-31
Bill Cassidy
Sits on Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-10-19
Angus S. King, Jr.
Sits on Senate Committee on Armed Services and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-10-03
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-09-30
Gary C. Peters
buy
VZ
· Verizon Communications Inc. <div class="text-muted"><em>Rate/Coupon:</em> 2.625%<br> <em>Matures:</em> 08/15/26</div> · Communications
Sits on Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-09-28
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-09-28
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-09-22
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-09-22
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-09-08
Susan M. Collins
buy
SYK
· Stryker Corporation <div class="text-muted"><em>Rate/Coupon:</em> 2.0%<br> <em>Matures:</em> 03/08/2019</div> · Healthcare
Sits on Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
$50,001 - $100,000
2016-08-18
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-08-18
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$15,001 - $50,000
2016-08-15
Sheldon Whitehouse
sell
CAT
· CAT-Caterpillar Inc. <div class="text-muted"><em>Rate/Coupon:</em> 5.7<br> <em>Matures:</em> 08/15/2016</div> · Industrials
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$15,001 - $50,000
2016-07-25
Jack Reed
Sits on Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-07-07
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-07-05
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-05-18
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-05-04
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-04-26
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-04-19
Shelley Moore Capito
Sits on Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-04-19
Shelley Moore Capito
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-04-19
Shelley Moore Capito
Sits on Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-04-19
Shelley Moore Capito
Sits on Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-03-31
Bill Cassidy
Sits on Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-03-31
Bill Cassidy
Sits on Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-03-24
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-03-01
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-02-29
Jack Reed
Sits on Senate Committee on Armed Services and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-02-12
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-01-26
Gary C. Peters
Sits on Senate Committee on Armed Services and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-01-25
Shelley Moore Capito
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$1,001 - $15,000
2016-01-20
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$15,001 - $50,000
2016-01-20
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$15,001 - $50,000
2016-01-06
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sits on Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
$15,001 - $50,000
How this is built. Committee assignments come from the public unitedstates/congress-legislators rosters; trades come from STOCK Act disclosures. A trade is flagged when the stock's sector matches a sector one of the member's committees oversees.
What it is not. This is not an accusation of insider trading or of any wrongdoing. Holding and trading shares in an overseen industry is legal, disclosure is exactly what the STOCK Act requires, and many members' trades are directed by advisers or held in accounts they do not personally control.
Deliberate limits. Only committees with narrow, specific oversight are matched — Appropriations, Budget, Ways and Means, Judiciary and the other broad committees touch every company in the economy, so flagging them would make the signal meaningless. Trades are only checked when we know the company's sector, which we don't for every stock, so treat this as a floor rather than a complete count.