Betty McCollum
Betty McCollum (D-MN4), in office since 2001, presents one of the lowest-wealth, cleanest financial profiles in Congress: her disclosures show essentially no investment portfolio (an annuity and two home mortgages), no individual stock trading, and she co-sponsors the TRUST in Congress Act to ban member stock trading. Her voting attendance (about 1.9% missed over her career) is better than the chamber median, and no records of campaign-fund personal use, family lobbying, or a staff-to-lobbyist scandal were found. The one notable accountability signal is correlation-based, not evidence of wrongdoing: as the top Democrat on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee she receives concentrated defense-industry PAC money (roughly $64,000 in Q1 2026 alone). Overall this is a low-self-dealing record, with the modest money-influence score reflecting only the structural overlap between her committee gatekeeping role and defense donors.
Public record
- In Congress since
- 2001
- Committees
- Appropriations
- Missed votes, 119th Congress
- 1.2% (8 of 674; median member 1.9%)
- Campaign money, 2025–26 cycle
- $1.3M raised · 37% from PACs & committees · $499K cash on hand FEC ↗
The stock-trading ban
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
Sources behind this score: 4 reference database · 2 official record · 3 news reporting. 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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