Congress trading statistics 2026

How many stock trades Congress discloses

• House members disclosed 591 stock trades in 42 periodic transaction reports filed from Aug 31, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026. That is 22 members trading 286 different stocks in 61 days. Source: VolaIntel count of House Clerk periodic transaction reports filed Aug 31, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, checked Oct 30, 2026.
• 65.3% of those trades were sales and 34.7% were purchases (386 sales, 205 purchases). Source: VolaIntel count of House Clerk periodic transaction reports filed Aug 31, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, checked Oct 30, 2026.
• The House Clerk's index lists 535 periodic transaction reports filed from Oct 30, 2025 to Oct 30, 2026. 71 of them (13.3%) were paper filings, published as scanned images with no text layer; VolaIntel cannot read their trades, so they are not in the trade counts on this page. Source: VolaIntel's daily read of the House Clerk periodic transaction reports index, checked Oct 30, 2026.

How late Congress discloses trades

• The median House stock trade was disclosed 22 days after it was made. 90% were disclosed within 45 days, and 76.4% within 30 days. Source: VolaIntel count of House Clerk periodic transaction reports filed Aug 31, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, checked Oct 30, 2026.
• 56 trades (9.5%) were disclosed more than 45 days after the trade, past the STOCK Act deadline. They sit in 3 reports filed by 3 members; the longest gap was 466 days. Source: VolaIntel count of House Clerk periodic transaction reports filed Aug 31, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, checked Oct 30, 2026.
• The STOCK Act gives members 30 days from being notified of a trade, and no more than 45 days from the trade, to report it. Source: Public Law 112-105, the STOCK Act and Office of Government Ethics LA-12-04, checked Oct 30, 2026.

A late filing has many possible causes, among them a trade made by a broker or a spouse that the member learned of later. These are counts from the filings, not findings about any member. Delay by member: how late Congress discloses stock trades.

Who is trading

• Republicans disclosed 305 House stock trades (51.6%) from 15 members. Source: VolaIntel count of House Clerk periodic transaction reports filed Aug 31, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, checked Oct 30, 2026.
• Democrats disclosed 286 House stock trades (48.4%) from 7 members. Source: VolaIntel count of House Clerk periodic transaction reports filed Aug 31, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, checked Oct 30, 2026.
• The five most active members made 80.5% of all House stock trades in the period. They are Gilbert Cisneros (D-CA, 173), Kevin Hern (R-OK, 136), April McClain Delaney (D-MD, 78), Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL, 54) and Pete Sessions (R-TX, 35). Source: VolaIntel count of House Clerk periodic transaction reports filed Aug 31, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, checked Oct 30, 2026.

Every member's trades: politician stock trades by member.

What Congress trades

• MSFT was the most traded stock: 15 disclosed trades by 10 members. Source: VolaIntel count of House Clerk periodic transaction reports filed Aug 31, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, checked Oct 30, 2026.
• The most bought stocks were MSFT (7), NVDA (5), CHRW (4), HUBB (4) and LTH (4). Source: VolaIntel count of House Clerk periodic transaction reports filed Aug 31, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, checked Oct 30, 2026.
• The most sold stocks were HD (10), MSFT (8), DVN (7), AAPL (6) and BSX (6). Source: VolaIntel count of House Clerk periodic transaction reports filed Aug 31, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, checked Oct 30, 2026.
• By sector, Technology (22.3%), Industrials (19%) and Health Care (11.5%) led. Sectors are VolaIntel's own mapping of each ticker. Source: VolaIntel count of House Clerk periodic transaction reports filed Aug 31, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, checked Oct 30, 2026.

How big the trades are

• 66.6% of House stock trades were in the smallest band, $1,001 - $15,000. Members report a value range, not an exact amount. Source: VolaIntel count of House Clerk periodic transaction reports filed Aug 31, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, checked Oct 30, 2026.
• Added up, the reported ranges come to between $9.7M and $28.6M. That is the sum of the low and the high ends of the 590 ranges. Source: VolaIntel count of House Clerk periodic transaction reports filed Aug 31, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, checked Oct 30, 2026.

Other filing deadlines

• Company insiders report trades on SEC Form 4 within two business days. Source: SEC, Forms 3, 4 and 5, checked Oct 30, 2026.
• Funds with $100 million or more in US stocks file Form 13F within 45 days after each quarter; the next deadline is Nov 16, 2026. Source: SEC, Form 13F FAQ, checked Oct 30, 2026.

Method

Where the numbers come from. Every House periodic transaction report on the House Clerk periodic transaction reports site, read daily by VolaIntel's refresh: each e-filed report is parsed into its trades, and each trade keeps the member's own ticker, dates and value range. The figures are computed by a script (seo/stats.mjs) from the same data files the apps read, data as of Oct 30, 2026.

What is counted. Purchases and sales of stocks with a ticker, in House reports filed Aug 31, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, the window in which VolaIntel keeps every member's trades. Exchanges, assets without a ticker and paper filings are left out. Delays use the trade date and the filing date on each report.

What is left out, and why. The Senate: its disclosure site refused the refresh in this period, so only a carried-over snapshot exists and it is not mixed in. Insider (Form 4) and fund (13F) figures: VolaIntel follows a selection of executives and funds, so no market-wide figure is drawn from them.

Updates and corrections. The page is rebuilt with the data, at least monthly. If a figure looks wrong, email support@volaintel.com and we will check it against the filing.