Reporting built from STOCK Act filings, roll-call votes, FEC records and lobbying registrations. Every figure names the filing it came from, and the pages compiled straight from the database are listed separately below so you always know which is which.
120 transactions filed by 10 members of Congress in the seven days to September 7, 2026. Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. filed 66 of them; the largest single trade was worth up to $500.0K.
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.
292 members in the CapitolExposed database appear on a Russian, Iranian or Chinese counter-sanctions list, among them 221 of 434 sitting House members and 67 of 98 senators. None appears on a United States, EU, UN or UK sanctions list. This replaces an earlier version that called them sanctioned and cited figures that are now six months stale.
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.
These pages are assembled from the database on a schedule. Nobody writes them and nobody bylines them. They are reference tables with the counts spelled out, useful for checking a figure or starting a search, and they change whenever the underlying records do.
Quarterly lobbying reports covering January 2024 through June 2025 disclose $8,156,205,646 across 103,449 filings. $3,772,771,919 of that is organizations reporting their own in-house spending, which overlaps with what their outside firms report separately.
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.
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CapitolExposed scans STOCK Act filings, roll-call votes, FEC records and Senate lobbying disclosures for patterns worth a closer look. A pattern that clears the threshold becomes a draft, and a draft is read and edited before it is published as a story. The pages under “Compiled from the data” skip that step by design: they are figures pulled straight from the database, so they carry the date they were compiled and no byline. CapitolExposed does not allege wrongdoing. It publishes public records and the arithmetic on them.