Committees

Do members of Congress trade the industries their committees oversee?

23 committees oversee at least one industry. Members seated on them disclosed 2,039 trades in those industries since the 119th Congress began (January 3, 2025); a member on several committees is counted on each. Ordered by the midpoint of the disclosed dollar ranges.

Committee	Oversees	Trades	Dollar range	Members
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence	Defense, Tech	169	$10M–$37M	6
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs	Finance	33	$3.1M–$13M	5
House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party	Tech	632	$2.2M–$13M	5
House Committee on Financial Services	Finance	383	$1.3M–$7.6M	11
House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology	Tech, Defense, Energy	162	$1.4M–$5M	11
House Committee on Energy and Commerce	Energy, Health, Telecom, Tech, Chemicals	157	$1.1M–$4.5M	13
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation	Telecom, Tech, Transport	66	$920K–$2.8M	5
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions	Health, Education	63	$421K–$1.8M	3
House Committee on Ways and Means	Health	36	$551K–$1.6M	6
Senate Committee on Finance	Health	14	$585K–$1.5M	3
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure	Transport, Building	98	$112K–$1.5M	6
House Committee on Armed Services	Defense	48	$146K–$890K	4
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry	Agriculture	7	$261K–$715K	3
House Committee on Natural Resources	Energy, Mining	41	$69K–$685K	4
House Committee on Agriculture	Agriculture	35	$77K–$630K	5
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works	Building, Chemicals, Energy	41	$41K–$615K	3
Senate Special Committee on Aging	Health	9	$150K–$475K	2
House Committee on Homeland Security	Defense	20	$34K–$335K	2
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence	Defense, Tech	22	$22K–$330K	2
Senate Committee on Armed Services	Defense	2	$16K–$65K	2
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources	Energy, Mining	1	$1K–$15K	1
House Committee on Education and Workforce	Education	0	—	0
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs	Defense	0	—	0

Committees with no sector mapping

These are listed with their members and total trades only.

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe · 479 trades by members
House Committee on Appropriations · 1,164 trades by members
House Committee on Ethics · 14 trades by members
House Committee on Foreign Affairs · 3,177 trades by members
House Committee on House Administration · 600 trades by members
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · 3,916 trades by members
House Committee on Rules · 43 trades by members
House Committee on Small Business · 2,540 trades by members
House Committee on the Budget · 501 trades by members
House Committee on the Judiciary · 257 trades by members
House Committee on Veterans' Affairs · 131 trades by members
House Select Subcommittee to Investigate the Remaining Questions Surrounding January 6, 2021 · 191 trades by members
Joint Committee of Congress on the Library · 595 trades by members
Joint Committee on Printing · 15 trades by members
Joint Committee on Taxation · 40 trades by members
Joint Economic Committee · 489 trades by members
Senate Committee on Appropriations · 500 trades by members
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations · 451 trades by members
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs · 733 trades by members
Senate Committee on Rules and Administration · 472 trades by members
Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship · 61 trades by members
Senate Committee on the Budget · 107 trades by members
Senate Committee on the Judiciary · 184 trades by members
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · 484 trades by members
Senate Select Committee on Ethics · 1 trades by members
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control · 102 trades by members

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.

Trading what they oversee, the all-Congress comparison with chance.