Everyone's passing around the "Capitol Hill stock-picking genius" story — screenshots here, jokes there. Almost no one hands you a verifiable ledger: 16,362 trades across 203 members of Congress, filed under the STOCK Act, sourced directly from the two official systems — the House Clerk's office and the Senate eFD — every row links back to the original disclosure.
The ledger keeps accumulating (filing dates Jan 2, 2024 – Oct 29, 2026). Congress is currently in a pre-election recess, so there is no new legislation. On Oct 27, Sessions filed a single sale of more than 25 blue-chip stocks (well-known large-cap names such as Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia) worth $1.35 million-$3.24 million, pushing the member count to 203 members. 16,362 total trades = 8,417 buys + 7,867 sells + 78 exchanges. Exchanges swap one security for another and count as neither a buy nor a sell. The buy share of 52% counts only buys and sells, excluding exchanges. The top end of the disclosed amount range edged up slightly again from the last count, now $668.1M–$2204.3M, a small change. The next thing that could move the ledger is the Nov 3 election — today is the early-voting deadline for that Oklahoma seat.
The "sell stocks, buy municipal bonds" trend has had no new members join for several rounds running and has essentially stalled. The on-the-books member count has just risen to 203 members, mainly driven by Sessions' Oct 27 one-time sale of more than 25 blue-chip stocks (see above), which has nothing to do with municipal bonds. Alan Armstrong remains the single most active filer, with 1496 trades filed, far ahead of everyone else. But he still has one unresolved matter: about 700 late-filed disclosures that violated the STOCK Act's disclosure deadline. Next are Tuberville 1430, Boozman 1087, Cisneros 708, and McCormick 629 — McCormick has been buying Goldman Sachs corporate bonds these past few days, running counter to the mostly-selling direction of everyone else. Click into the dashboard for trade-by-trade detail on the top 15.
Big Tech dominates the rankings: MSFT 257, NVDA 209, AAPL 197, GOOGL 101, ADBE 57. The ranking is built from years of accumulated filings, not a recent shift. Looking ahead, most new filings are sales in energy and industrials — energy name Devon Energy (DVN) and industrial name Lockheed Martin (LMT) are both being sold. The one buying against the grain is Goldman Sachs (GS): 5 filings in the past 30 days, 4 buys against just 1 sell, the heaviest buying concentration of any stock; over the same period its share price actually fell 3.58%. A falling price paired with heavier buying runs opposite to the book's overall "selling" theme.
The most direct question for this ledger: is Congress buying or selling overall? Cumulative to date, it's 8,417 buys against 7,867 sells, with buys at 52%. Another 78 trades are exchanges, counted as neither buys nor sells. But that's an old tally built up over more than two years. The last 30 days tell a more current story: 196 sells outnumber 127 buys, with sells at roughly 60%. That ratio has held steady for days running. The "sell stocks, buy municipal bonds" pattern spread briefly two weeks ago, but no new members have followed since, and it's largely stalled. Still driving the selling lean is Kevin Hern: on Oct 28 he sold 3 more semiconductor stocks (ASML, STX, TXN), continuing the "sell sector stocks, buy municipal bonds" rhythm. Another is Corning (GLW), already pre-sold by 3 members, which plunged 8.1% in a single day on Oct 22. Here's where this ledger's numbers stand now:
This isn't rumor — the moment a filing lands, the ledger re-tallies; even on a day with no new filings, older entries rolling out of the window can still shift the reading.
This page is only a snapshot — the ledger itself is live. The full version is an interactive ledger: filter by chamber and by buy or sell, search by member or ticker, drill into the Top 15 members and holdings with one click, and every row links to the original disclosure.
Current tally: buys account for 52%. Big Tech (MSFT/AAPL/NVDA/GOOGL) is the hottest. The most active filer is Alan Armstrong, with 1496 trades filed alone. What to watch next: the Senate's "anti-insider-trading bill" fell short of the 60-vote threshold on Sep 30, 53-47. The House version hasn't been scheduled for a vote either. Both bills can't restart until after the Nov 3 election, so there is essentially no chance of passage this year. A more direct test has already played out: Microsoft's stock didn't fall after its Q3 earnings beat, so those who bought it called it right. Rep. Rulli filed a sale of $50,000-$100,000 of Google stock ahead of its Oct 19 earnings. On earnings day, Google plunged more than 12%, wiping out over $500 billion in market value — its worst single-day drop since going public. That early sale looks right so far. Another thing to watch is the Nov 3 Oklahoma special election, whose outcome will test whether Horn's "sell stocks, buy municipal bonds" call was right.
Rumors can be invented; filings can't. Every row clicks back to the source — that is this ledger's entire stance.
If the median filing delay stretches past the statutory 45 days, or a large share of trades get disclosed at the bottom of their range, the ledger remains searchable — but it's no longer reliable enough to support any real-time judgment.