- Insider and other media have identified numerous US lawmakers not complying with the federal STOCK Act.
- Their excuses range from oversights, to clerical errors, to inattentive accountants.
- Ethics watchdogs — and even some in Congress — want to ban lawmakers from trading individual stocks.
Congress passed the law a decade ago to combat insider trading and conflicts of interest among their own members and force lawmakers to be more transparent about their personal financial dealings. A key provision of the law mandates that lawmakers publicly — and quickly — disclose any stock trade made by themselves, a spouse, or a dependent child.
But many members of Congress have not fully complied with the law. They offer excuses including ignorance of the law, clerical errors, and mistakes by an accountant. Insider has chronicled this widespread nature of this phenomenon in a new project, “Conflicted Congress.”
Lawmakers discovered to have recently violated the STOCK Act — It’s Bipartisan
Rep. Cindy Axne, a Democrat from Iowa
Rep. Cheri Bustos, a Democrat from Illinois
Rep. Kathy Castor, a Democrat of Florida
Rep. Katherine Clark, a Democrat from Massachusetts
Rep. Dwight Evans, a Democrat from Pennsylvania
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California
Rep. Brian Higgins, a Democrat from New York
Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat from Arizona
Rep. Susie Lee, a Democrat of Nevada
Rep. Alan Lowenthal, a Democrat from California
Rep. Tom Malinowski, a Democrat from New Jersey
Rep. Kathy Manning, a Democrat from North Carolina
Rep. Bill Pascrell, a Democrat of New Jersey
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, a Democrat from New York
Rep. Ed Perlmutter, a Democrat from Colorado
Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland
Del. Michael San Nicolas, a Democrat from Guam
Rep. Brad Schneider, a Democrat from Illinois
Rep. Kurt Schrader, a Democrat from Oregon
Rep. Kim Schrier, a Democrat from Washington
Rep. Bobby Scott, a Democrat from Virginia
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat from New Jersey
Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat from New York
Rep. Lori Trahan, a Democrat from Massachusetts
Rep. David Trone, a Democrat of Maryland
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democrat from Florida
Rep. Peter Welch, a Democrat from Vermont
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island
Rep. Rick Allen, a Republican from Georgia
Rep. Jim Banks, a Republican from Indiana
Rep. Mo Brooks, a Republican from Alabama
Rep. Michael Burgess, a Republican from Texas
Rep. Steve Chabot, a Republican from Ohio
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a Republican from Texas
Rep. Warren Davidson, a Republican from Ohio
Rep. Pat Fallon, a Republican from Texas
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, a Republican from Tennessee
Rep. Mike Garcia, a Republican from California
Rep. Lance Gooden, a Republican from Texas
Rep. Michael Guest, a Republican from Mississippi
Rep. Jim Hagedorn, a Republican from Minnesota
Rep. Diana Harshbarger, a Republican from Tennessee
Rep. Kevin Hern, a Republican from Oklahoma
Rep. Chris Jacobs, a Republican from New York
Rep. Mike Kelly, a Republican from Pennsylvania
Sen. Cynthia Lummis, a Republican from Wyoming
Sen. Roger Marshall, a Republican from Kansas
Rep. Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida
Rep. Dan Meuser, a Republican from Pennsylvania
Rep. Blake Moore, a Republican from Utah
Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky
Rep. August Pfluger, a Republican from Texas
Rep. John Rutherford, a Republican from Florida
Rep. Austin Scott, a Republican from Georgia
Rep. Pete Sessions, a Republican from Texas
Rep. Victoria Spartz, a Republican from Indiana
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama
Rep. Roger Williams, a Republican from Texas
Rep. Rob Wittman, a Republican from Virginia