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André Carson

D Democrat · Representative, Indiana 7th district
4
Low self-dealing
4/6 components have data
#191 of 193 scored

André Carson (D-IN7), in office since 2008, sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee. Public records present an unusually clean financial profile: trackers report roughly $0 in tracked publicly traded assets and a net worth around $32,500 (negative in some prior years), indicating no individual-stock trading and no enrichment beyond salary. His campaign fundraising is modest ($130.8K in Q1 2026) and no ethics or FEC personal-use findings surfaced. His lifetime missed-vote rate of 2.1% is at the chamber median. On the searched dimensions he scores low for self-dealing; some components lack data and are scored as insufficient-data per the rubric (never penalizing absence).

Public record

In Congress since
2008
Committees
Transportation and Infrastructure
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party
Missed votes, 119th Congress
1.2% (8 of 674; median member 1.9%)
Campaign money, 2025–26 cycle
$1.0M raised · 50% from PACs & committees · $621K 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

No periodic transaction reports on file since 2024. That's the norm: most members don't trade individual stocks, or hold them in blind trusts and diversified funds.

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-trading
25% weight
0
No individual-stock trading. Quiver Quantitative reports ~$0 in tracked publicly traded assets; no STOCK Act periodic transaction reports surface. Per rubric, 0 when no individual-stock trading.
Net-worth enrichment in office
15% weight
0
No enrichment beyond salary. Net worth reported negative (-$24,500 in 2018) and ~$32.5K in 2026 — among the lowest in Congress, with no growth beyond salary/market.
Money → action alignmentcorrelation, not proof of any quid-pro-quo
20% weight
12
Correlation, not proof. Carson raises typical Democratic donor money (lawyers/law firms, securities & investment among common industries) while sitting on Intelligence and T&I committees, but fundraising is modest ($130.8K Q1 2026) and no specific donor-aligned vote/bill pattern was documented in public records searched.
Campaign-fund personal useno data
15% weight
—
No documented personal use of campaign or leadership-PAC funds found. No FEC enforcement matter or House Ethics statement involving Carson surfaced in searches.
Revolving door & familyno data
15% weight
—
No documented family lobbying, office-tied contracts, or notable staff-to-lobbyist pipeline surfaced in public records searched.
Skips the job to fundraise
10% weight
5
Attendance at chamber median. Carson missed 235 of 11,329 votes (2.1%) from 2008 to June 2026 — equal to the median for currently serving representatives. Fundraising is modest; no heavy paid-speech pattern documented.

Sources behind this score: 3 data aggregator · 5 reference database · 1 official record. Score = weighted average of the components that have data; the 2 without sourced evidence are excluded, never counted against the member. Methodology →

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