Stories
There are no stories here yet
This section is meant to carry analysis written out of the filings themselves. The filings are now loaded — the periodic transaction reports filed with the Clerk of the House during calendar 2025, less the ones that arrived as unreadable paper scans — but none of the writing has been done. Rather than fill the page with examples of what such a story might look like, here is what will run here and what it will be held to.
What this section will carry
Congressional stock trades are disclosed under the STOCK Act of 2012 and published by the Clerk of the House and the Senate’s Electronic Financial Disclosure system. The documents are already public, and other outlets and trackers already read them. The only thing this section can offer is a reading it shows its working for. What has been read here is the House side of calendar 2025. The Senate’s system gates access behind a statutory restriction on the commercial use of disclosure reports, and that question is unresolved here: no Senate filing has been read, and nothing on this site covers the Senate.
So the pieces here will be counting exercises before they are anything else — a member’s disclosures read against the committee that member sits on, the distance between a trade date and the date it was actually disclosed, sector concentration across a chamber, the reports that arrived late. Each starts from documents rather than from a press cycle, and the documents for one chamber and one year are now on hand.
Where a story cites a figure, the figure will link to the filing it came from, so the finding can be checked rather than trusted. The addresses are on file; no page on this site shows one yet, and that is owed before the first story runs.
What a story here will be held to
Every figure names its filing.
A number that cannot be traced back to a specific disclosure document does not get published. That is the constraint that decides what can be written here at all. Every filing that was read is stored with the address of the document it was read from — though no page on this site prints that link yet.
Ranges, never amounts.
A periodic transaction report discloses a bracket — $1,001 – $15,000 is the smallest one — and never an exact figure. Stories will report the bracket. They will not sum brackets into a portfolio value or derive a return from them, because that number would be invented.
Timing is a fact; intent is not.
That a trade was disclosed near a hearing is something the record can show. That anyone knew anything is not, and a story here will not make that leap on a reader’s behalf. Where a pattern is suggestive it will be described as suggestive.
Corrections are published, not absorbed.
Filings are amended and ingest can be wrong. When a story here is wrong, the correction will appear on the story and be dated, rather than the original quietly changing underneath the people who already read it.
None of it is investment advice.
This is a public record, read closely. It is not a recommendation to buy or sell anything, and this site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any government body.
Why the page is empty
Not for want of filings any more. A first run over calendar 2025 found 515 periodic transaction reports filed with the Clerk of the House: 449 of them parsed, and 66 — 12.8% — scans of paper that no machine here can read, recorded as unreadable rather than quietly dropped. That leaves 7,645 transactions across 1,110 issuers to write from. The 1,578 filers on record are everyone who filed anything with the Clerk in 2025, not only the members whose reports could be read. What is missing is the writing. There is no archive behind this page, no drafts queue, and no publishing system yet — the count of stories is zero, not hidden.
Coverage is partial in three ways worth saying plainly: the US House only, calendar 2025 only, and only the reports a machine could read. What was read is stored as filed — 35 transactions carry a notification date earlier than the trade they report, which is a filer’s typo, kept as it was submitted rather than tidied up.
An index that shows placeholder headlines to look finished is making a claim about its own contents that is not true, and this site’s entire premise is that it publishes nothing it cannot source. The honest version of this page is this one. It will be replaced by a list of real stories, and by nothing else.