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Congress Trades

The Congress Trades widget is a feed of stock transactions disclosed by members of the US Congress under the STOCK Act — the 2012 law that requires them to report trades in themselves, their spouse's, or a dependent child's accounts.

Each row shows:

• the member (with party and district),
• the ticker and asset traded — highlighted when it's on your watchlist,
• the direction — buy, sell, or partial sell,
• the size band — the law only requires a range like $15,001 – $50,000, never exact amounts,
• the transaction date, and how long until it was disclosed.

The lag is the story

Members have 45 days to disclose a trade. That means every row you read is describing something that happened days or weeks ago — the feed tells you what Congress was doing, not what it is doing right now. Visor shows the gap on every row ("disclosed 23 days later"), and flags filings that arrived past the 45-day deadline.

Two honest cautions:

• Bands, not amounts. A "$1,001 – $15,000" sale might be pocket change to that member; a "$1,000,001+" purchase is a conviction trade. Read size relative to the filer.
• Not investment advice. A disclosure tells you a trade happened, not why. Committee schedules, blind trusts, and spouses' independent accounts all muddy the signal — treat this as context, not a copy-trading service.

Filters

Narrow the feed by chamber, direction, minimum size band, a specific member, or a ticker. Symbols on your watchlist are highlighted wherever they appear, so congressional activity in names you follow stands out at a glance.

Where the data comes from

Rows are parsed from the official House Clerk public records (disclosures-clerk.house.gov) — the primary source, not a commercial aggregator. House coverage is live; Senate disclosures are on the roadmap pending a clean official data path. Some filings are submitted on paper and are only available as scanned images; those can't be parsed into rows and are excluded.