Congressional

Members of Congress trade stocks, and they have to tell you when they do. The Congressional view collects those disclosures from House and Senate members and lays them out so you can see who bought what, when, and how much.

Trades disclosed by House and Senate members, with the ticker, direction, amount, and date.

Traders watch this for a simple reason: members sit close to policy and oversight, and their trades sometimes land right before the news that moves a sector. A cluster of buys in a defense name ahead of a budget vote, or a sell in a company facing a hearing, is the kind of thing worth a second look.

What each entry shows

• The member who filed the disclosure, and which chamber.
• The ticker and company traded.
• Buy or sell, so you can read the direction.
• The amount, reported in the broad ranges Congress uses rather than exact figures.
• The transaction date and the date it was disclosed, which often sit weeks apart.

Disclosures arrive on a delay by law, so treat these as signal and context, not a live trade to copy. The value is in the pattern: repeated activity in one name, or several members moving the same way.

This view also surfaces federal contract awards, since the company winning a government contract is often the more tradable event than the disclosure itself. When you spot a name here that interests you, the government feed pulls together the related contract and disclosure activity in one place.

Related: the government feed.