Members of Congress trade stocks while writing laws that regulate those same companies, and every trade must be disclosed by law. We track every disclosure filed through the House Clerk — and flag the ones that look suspicious.
Academic research has consistently shown that congressional stock portfolios outperform the market by 6–12% annually. The STOCK Act requires every member of Congress and their spouse to disclose trades within 45 days. Our AI scans every disclosure against each legislator's committee assignments, pending votes in their chamber, and sector concentration — surfacing trades where the timing is hard to explain without access to non-public information.
Every STOCK Act filing across the full House and Senate
AI suspicion score for each trade — why it's notable in plain English
Committee membership overlay: did they trade what they regulate?
Timing analysis: how close to a vote or markup did the trade happen?
Party breakdown so you can filter R vs D
Force Sweep button for manual refresh any time
Multiple peer-reviewed studies have found that congressional stock portfolios outperform market benchmarks at statistically significant rates — by roughly 6–12% annually depending on the study. Georgia Tech researchers and others have documented this pattern going back to the 1990s. Whether this is attributable to legislative knowledge, savvy investing, or chance is debated, but the pattern is consistently documented.
The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (2012) prohibits insider trading by members of Congress and requires public disclosure of trades over $1,000 within 45 days. However, it doesn't prohibit trading in individual stocks at all — only trading on material non-public information (which is almost impossible to prove). Penalties for late filing have historically been minimal (often just $200), and enforcement has been rare.
Housestockwatcher.com and senatestockwatcher.com show raw STOCK Act disclosures. We add AI-powered context: for each trade, we surface why it's notable — which committees the legislator sits on, what legislation was pending when they traded, whether the trade is in a sector they regulate, and how large the trade is relative to their history. The raw data alone is noise. The analysis is signal.
Our automated sweep runs daily. New disclosures typically appear in the database within 24 hours of being filed with the House Clerk. The STOCK Act allows up to 45 days from trade date to disclosure, so there is inherent lag between when a legislator actually trades and when you see it.
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