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Adam Smith

D Democrat · Representative, Washington 9th district
15
Low self-dealing
5/6 components have data
#138 of 193 scored

Adam Smith, a Washington Democrat in the House since 1997, is the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee. His disclosed finances are modest and his only recent trades were his wife's one-day liquidation of an inherited IRA. His campaign relies heavily on PAC money, about a third of it from defense and aerospace contractors under his committee's jurisdiction. That is a correlation, not evidence of a quid pro quo. His 6.4% missed-vote rate in the 119th Congress is driven mostly by a September 2026 absence whose cause was not found.

Public record

In Congress since
1997
Committees
Armed Services (Ranking Member)
Missed votes, 119th Congress
6.4% (43 of 674; median member 1.9%)
Campaign money, 2025–26 cycle
$1.9M raised · 30% from PACs & committees · $870K cash on hand FEC ↗

The stock-trading ban

H.R. 7008 passage, Jul 22, 2026
No
Cosponsored a ban bill
None

H.R. 7008 bans new stock purchases by members, spouses and dependents; it doesn't force sales of existing holdings. The Senate vote was on the version paired with the SAVE Act, which is why no Democrat voted yes. Full breakdown →

Disclosed stock trades

18trades since Jan 2025
0buys
18sells
0filed past 45 days
$18K–$270Kdisclosed value range

Most-traded: ABBNY ×1 · ALK ×1 · GOOG ×1 · AAPL ×1 · BRK.B ×1 · C ×1 · CVS ×1 · DE ×1

TradedFiledOwnerAssetTypeAmount
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpouseABBNY ABB LTD SPONS ADR (ABBNY) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpouseALK Alaska Air Group, Inc. Common Stock (ALK) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpouseGOOG Alphabet Inc. - Class C Capital Stock (GOOG) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpouseAAPL Apple Inc. - Common Stock (AAPL) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpouseBRK.B Berkshire Hathaway Inc. New Common Stock (BRK.B) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpouseC Citigroup, Inc. Common Stock (C) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpouseCVS CVS Health Corporation Common Stock (CVS) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpouseDE Deere & Company Common Stock (DE) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpouseMSFT Microsoft Corporation - Common Stock (MSFT) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpouseNEM Newmont Corporation (NEM) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpousePCAR PACCAR Inc. - Common Stock (PCAR) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpousePG Procter & Gamble Company (PG) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpouseRSG Republic Services, Inc. Common Stock (RSG) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpouseTSLA Tesla, Inc. - Common Stock (TSLA) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpouseUNP Union Pacific Corporation Common Stock (UNP) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpouseUPS United Parcel Service, Inc. Common Stock (UPS) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpouseDIS Walt Disney Company (DIS) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗
Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025SpouseWY Weyerhaeuser Company Common Stock (WY) [ST]Sell$1,001 - $15,000filing ↗

Amounts are the ranges members must report, not exact values. The STOCK Act requires a report within 45 days of a trade; "late" counts days past that deadline, measured to the filing date.

How the score breaks down

Stock self-tradinghousehold / spouse
25% weight
4
His only periodic transaction report in Greederboard's 2024-2026 data lists 18 same-day sales on Aug 8, 2025 from his wife's inherited IRA, filed on time. The annual report explains she liquidated the IRA she inherited when her father died in 2021, moving the proceeds to a money-market fund. Household holdings are otherwise bank accounts, an S&P 500 index fund and pensions.
Aug 2025 report: 18 spouse sales on Aug 8, 2025 from a Baird inherited beneficiary IRA, each $1,001-$15,000.Official recorddisclosures-clerk.house.gov ↗2025 annual report: spouse divested all stocks in the IRA inherited in 2021 on Aug 8, 2025; proceeds moved to a Vanguard money market fund.Official recorddisclosures-clerk.house.gov ↗
Net-worth enrichment in office
15% weight
2
His 2025 annual report shows modest assets: joint bank accounts, a Vanguard 500 index fund ($100,001-$250,000), state pension accounts and the inherited IRA ($100,001-$250,000), against a mortgage of $50,001-$100,000. Nothing suggests enrichment beyond salary and savings over nearly three decades in office.
2025 annual report: Vanguard 500 Index Fund $100,001-$250,000; USAA savings $50,001-$100,000; Chase mortgage $50,001-$100,000.Official recorddisclosures-clerk.house.gov ↗
Money → action alignmentcorrelation, not proof of any quid-pro-quo
20% weight
45
Correlation, not proof. Smith is the top Democrat on Armed Services. By Greederboard's keyword classification of FEC bulk data, defense and aerospace contractor PACs gave about 33% of his PAC money in 2024 ($245K of $751K) and 37% in 2026 ($225K of $612K): Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, RTX, Northrop Grumman, L3Harris, Huntington Ingalls, BAE and others at $10,000 each. OpenSecrets data cited by Gigafact made him the top recipient of defense-sector money among progressives in 2019-20 ($310,120) while he chaired the committee. That is concentrated money from the industry his committee funds, with no documented quid pro quo.
FEC committee-to-candidate file (2025-26): ~$612K from 140 committees to H6WA09025; defense/aerospace PACs ~37% by keyword classification, including $10,000 each from Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, RTX, Northrop Grumman and L3Harris.Official recordfec.gov ↗FEC committee-to-candidate file (2023-24): defense/aerospace PACs ~33% ($245K) of ~$751K to H6WA09025 by keyword classification.Official recordfec.gov ↗Gigafact, citing OpenSecrets: Smith, then Armed Services chair, received $310,120 from the defense sector in 2019-2020, including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing and Northrop Grumman.News reportinggigafact.org ↗
Campaign-fund personal useno data
15% weight
—
No FEC enforcement matter, ethics complaint or reporting about personal use of campaign funds was found. Not scored.
FEC candidate page: Adam Smith for Congress Committee (C00304709) reported $1,882,001 in 2025-26 receipts, including $563,000 from other committees; his leadership PAC is American Defense and Military PAC.Official recordfec.gov ↗
Revolving door & family
15% weight
8
LegiStorm records ordinary staff movement: a longtime legislative assistant left in 2015 for a Washington state lobbying firm, and a former chemical-industry lobbyist became his communications director in 2019. Neither is shown to involve defense clients. No family lobbying was found.
LegiStorm (March 2015): longtime Smith legislative assistant Paul Hoover joined Gordon Thomas Honeywell Governmental Affairs.Reference databaselegistorm.com ↗LegiStorm (Aug 2019): Justin Weiss, formerly a lobbyist at LNE Group representing chemical companies, became Smith's communications director.Reference databaselegistorm.com ↗
Skips the job to fundraise
10% weight
12
Voteview shows 631 votes cast and 43 missed in the 119th Congress (6.4%). Most of that comes from one stretch: 22 of 29 roll calls missed in September 2026, without which his rate is under 2%. No public explanation was found for the September absences and nothing links them to fundraising, so the score stays low.
Voteview 119th House roll-call data: Smith cast 631 votes and missed 43 (6.4%), including 22 of 29 in September 2026.News reportingvoteview.com ↗

Sources behind this score: 6 official record · 2 news reporting · 2 reference database. Score = weighted average of the components that have data; the 1 without sourced evidence are excluded, never counted against the member. Methodology →

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