Trade AlertMar 16, 2026
This Week in Congressional Trading: Week 12, 2026
2 trades by 2 members. Kelly Morrison led with 1 transactions.
2 min readCapitolExposed Research Team
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2 trades by 2 members. Kelly Morrison led with 1 transactions.
$815.6B in disclosed lobbying spend is currently mapped across 103,449 filings in the CapitolExposed database.
CapitolExposed currently tracks 2,057 cross-reference matches between congressional entities and external investigation datasets. These are leads that still require corroboration.
CapitolExposed grouped flagged trades by committee membership to identify the panels with the heaviest concentration of committee-linked trading risk.
15 tickers in the current disclosure data were traded by at least two Democrats and two Republicans, making them the clearest bipartisan trading clusters in the database.
CapitolExposed identified the 15 lawmakers with the heaviest disclosed trading activity in the current dataset and measured how often those trades also landed in the critical conflict range.
CapitolExposed's investigation engine cross-referenced the financial activity of every actively trading member of Congress against lobbying filings, campaign donations, ICIJ offshore leaks, FARA foreign agent registrations, OpenSanctions watchlists, government contracts, and SEC insider trades. The result: 83 dossiers, two at critical severity.
Between late March and late May 2025, 53 members of Congress executed more than 2,200 stock trades valued between $34.9 million and $140 million. The trading pattern accelerated precisely around the dates when tariff policy shifted markets by double digits.
CapitolExposed's five-component conflict model flagged 20 trades as CRITICAL, scoring 0.7 or higher on a scale where the congressional average is 0.058. The highest scored 0.848, hitting committee overlap, trade-before-vote timing, and volume anomaly thresholds simultaneously.
CapitolExposed matched 47 companies in congressional stock filings against international sanctions and watchlist databases. Lockheed Martin, Chevron, General Dynamics, and Uber all appear. So does Iron Mountain, flagged on the U.S. OFAC list at 70% match confidence.
A CapitolExposed analysis found that 296 of 538 members of Congress appear on foreign counter-sanctions lists. Among them, Rick Scott has traded $91.3 million in stock, and Shelley Moore Capito has racked up 56 high-conflict trades.
Since the STOCK Act became law in 2012, hundreds of members of Congress have violated its disclosure requirements. The total number of criminal prosecutions: zero. The standard penalty: a $200 fine that ethics committees routinely waive.
On February 13, 2015, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) executed 93 stock sales in a single day, liquidating $1.4 million in holdings across dozens of tickers. Public records show this was not an isolated event.
Rick Scott (R-FL) has accumulated $91.3 million in maximum trading volume across 95 disclosed transactions, making him the highest-volume trader in Congress by a factor of nearly two.
CNN's February 2026 investigation named 10 senators whose trades overlapped with committee work. CapitolExposed's conflict-scoring model flags 14 more who have escaped public attention entirely.
Spouse trades account for 1,090 of Congress's 3,759 disclosed stock transactions, totaling $144.4 million, and carry conflict scores 25% higher than trades members make in their own names.
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