Who Has Traded Stock Since the House Voted to Ban It?

By 18 September 20263 min readCongressSTOCK ActPolitics
The short answer. Trading did not stop. The House vote of 22 July 2026 changed no law, so members have continued to buy and sell throughout. Our database currently holds 1,082 disclosed transactions dated on or after that day. The table is read from disclosures as they arrive.

Checked 2 October 2026. Last change to the facts below: the House vote of 22 July 2026. If those dates are far apart, the legislative position may have moved since this was last edited.

Who has filed the most since the vote?

FilerChamberPartyTransactions in this sampleDisclosed value, up to
James Conley JusticesenateR1$100.0m
Scott H. PetershouseD29$25.9m
Donald J Trumpexecutiven/a90$23.1m
David H McCormicksenateR48$10.2m
Nancy PelosihouseD5$8.5m
April McClain DelaneyhouseD54$8.0m
Kevin HernhouseR66$6.4m
Scott A Kuporexecutiven/a4$6.2m
Kevin Warshexecutiven/a2$5.3m
Josh GottheimerhouseD4$3.0m
Rohit KhannahouseD23$2.8m
Richard BlumenthalsenateD12$2.5m
Suzan K. DelBenehouseD5$2.0m
Sheri BiggshouseR2$2.0m
Steve CohenhouseD4$1.5m

This is not a ranking of every member. It is built from the 400 largest disclosed transactions dated on or after 22 July 2026, grouped by filer, because there is no such thing as a small bounded read of a large table that is also a complete one — and a partial answer labelled as complete is worse than no answer. Someone who trades often in small amounts will be under-represented here by design.

Why is a trade after the vote not a breach of anything?

Because there is nothing yet to breach. H.R. 7008 has passed the House only. The obligations that exist today are the STOCK Act's: disclose within 45 days, pay $200 if you are late.

It is worth being precise about this, because "traded after voting to ban trading" is an easy headline and a misleading one. A member who voted for the bill and then bought shares has done nothing inconsistent with the law, and nothing inconsistent with the bill either — which, by its own terms, would not have applied until enacted.

Why does the recent end of this data always look quiet?

The STOCK Act allows 45 days between a trade and its disclosure. So the last six weeks of any congressional dataset — including this one — is systematically incomplete, and fills in backwards as filings arrive. A month that looks quiet today may not look quiet in November.

What this page cannot tell you

Why any trade was made. A disclosure gives a filer, a ticker, a date, a direction and a band. It gives no reason, and there is rarely any way to tell an active manager's decision from the member's own.


Educational information, not financial advice. Figures on this page are read from the source filings when the page loads rather than written into the article. Dated events — votes, appointments, filings — are written down with their date and source, because those do not change.

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