House Committee on Armed Services: do its members trade what it oversees?
57 current members of the House Committee on Armed Services disclosed 48 trades in industries the committee oversees (Defense) since the 119th Congress began (January 3, 2025): 4 members, $146K–$890K in total. All told they disclosed 5,408 trades.
Disclosed trades in industries the committee oversees
Weighted by dollars, 1.0% of these members' trading in individual companies is in Defense. If each had traded like the rest of Congress, about 0.9% would be, so 1.22× what chance predicts. That comparison covers 12 members with company trades. How the comparison works.
The 25 largest trades
Members
- Abraham J. Hamadeh R
- Adam Smith D
- Austin Scott R
- Brad Finstad R
- Carlos A. Gimenez R
- Chrissy Houlahan D
- Christopher R. Deluzio D
- Clay Higgins R
- Cory Mills R
- Derek Schmidt R
- Derek Tran D
- Derrick Van Orden R
- Don Bacon R
- Donald G. Davis D
- Donald Norcross D
- Elise M. Stefanik R
- Eric Sorensen D
- Eugene Simon Vindman D
- Gabe Vasquez D
- George Whitesides D · 2 trades in these industries
- Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. D · 38 trades in these industries
- Herbert C. Conaway, Jr. D
- Jack Bergman R
- James C. Moylan R
- Jared F. Golden D
- Jason Crow D
- Jeff Crank R
- Jennifer A. Kiggans R
- Jill N. Tokuda D
- Joe Courtney D
- Joe Wilson R
- John Garamendi D
- John J. McGuire III R
- Lance Gooden R
- Maggie Goodlander D
- Marilyn Strickland D
- Mark B. Messmer R
- Michael R. Turner R
- Mike Rogers R
- Morgan Luttrell R
- Nancy Mace R
- Pat Fallon R
- Pat Harrigan R
- Patrick Ryan D
- Richard McCormick R · 7 trades in these industries
- Ro Khanna D · 1 trade in these industries
- Robert J. Wittman R
- Ronny Jackson R
- Salud O. Carbajal D
- Sam Graves R
- Sara Jacobs D
- Sarah Elfreth D
- Scott DesJarlais R
- Seth Moulton D
- Trent Kelly R
- Wesley Bell D
- William R. Keating D
Overlap between a member's trades and their committee's jurisdiction is a conflict-of-interest signal, not evidence that any trade used nonpublic information.
Committee assignments are 119th-Congress seats, so only trades dated on or after January 3, 2025 count, and for a member who arrived later, only trades from the start of their current service. A committee change during the Congress can still put a trade on the wrong side of a seat. Subcommittees aren't counted. Amounts are the disclosed ranges; the dollar range adds up each trade's low and high ends. Trades are periodic transaction reports for the member and, where disclosed, a spouse or dependent child. This window differs from /explore/conflicts/, which counts all trades since January 2024, so the two pages' figures won't match.