1 in 10 members of Congress traded stocks in companies their committees oversee
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
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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.
