🏛️ Congress Trading Monitorby KadoaUpdated todayStar on GitHub

Stock trades and committee assignments

Trades from 3 January 2025, against committee assignments in the 119th Congress

Contents

Own sectors: the share of members' trades in sectors their committee covers. All Congress: the share of every member's trades in the same sectors.
Financial Services (House)
Banks, insurance, brokers and real estate, Homebuilders		172,45517%17%
Armed Services (House)
Defense and aerospace		121,7883%2%
Education and Workforce (House)
Education services		71,5720%0%
Agriculture (House)
Farming, meat, dairy, grain, sugar and farm inputs		111,4671%1%
Transportation and Infrastructure (House)
Airlines, rail, trucking and shipping		141,2702%3%
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate)
Drugs, medical devices, pharmacies, health care and insurers, Education services		550412%12%
Natural Resources (House)
Oil, gas, coal and pipelines, Metal and mineral mining		124857%5%
Environment and Public Works (Senate)
Electric and gas utilities		53223%2%
Energy and Commerce (House)
Oil, gas, coal and pipelines, Electric and gas utilities, Drugs, medical devices, pharmacies, health care and insurers, Telecommunications and media, Computers, semiconductors, software and internet, Cars, trucks and parts		1730547%46%
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (Senate)
Farming, meat, dairy, grain, sugar and farm inputs		92901%1%
Ways and Means (House)
Drugs, medical devices, pharmacies, health care and insurers		1225814%12%
Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate)
Airlines, rail, trucking and shipping, Telecommunications and media, Computers, semiconductors, software and internet, Cars, trucks and parts		814346%31%
Armed Services (Senate)
Defense and aerospace		51242%2%
Finance (Senate)
Drugs, medical devices, pharmacies, health care and insurers		37319%12%
Energy and Natural Resources (Senate)
Oil, gas, coal and pipelines, Electric and gas utilities, Metal and mineral mining		5642%7%
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate)
Banks, insurance, brokers and real estate, Homebuilders		64630%17%

About this data

  • 11% of members' stock trades were in sectors their own committees cover. If they traded like Congress as a whole, it would be 10%.
  • 11 of 16 committees have members trading their own sectors more than Congress overall does. Most differences are small and rest on few trades.
  • Sectors come from each committee's written jurisdiction (House Rule X, Senate Rule XXV) and each company's SEC industry code. Tax, spending and antitrust committees touch every sector and are left out. The Sectors tab lists every match.
  • Funds and ETFs are left out, as are companies without an SEC industry code.
  • Each trade counts once, whatever its size. Assignments are recorded from October 2026 and applied to earlier trades in this Congress.
  • A trade in a committee's sector is not evidence of wrongdoing. Members often sit on committees that matter to their state's industries.