Dan Crenshaw (R-TX-02) drew scrutiny for purchasing roughly half a dozen individual stocks in March 2020 — including Amazon, Boeing, Southwest, SPX and Kinder Morgan — during the period Congress debated and passed the CARES Act, and he initially failed to disclose these trades as required by the STOCK Act, later amending his filings and acknowledging a likely fine. Outside that 2020 episode, his disclosed trading is limited and dominated by the broad-market SPY ETF, with reporting indicating he holds few individual stocks. His net worth is reported to have grown over his tenure, but published estimates vary widely (from roughly $1.4M to $4.4M) and a substantial portion is attributed to a military pension, book royalties and real estate, making office-linked enrichment difficult to isolate from cited records. On campaign finance, the FEC fined his committee $42,000 in 2022 for failing to timely return more than $223,000 in excessive/prohibited contributions, and a separate FEC letter flagged about $9,000 in salon expenditures as a potential personal-use concern. He missed 6.2% of roll-call votes (233 of 3,777) from 2019 to mid-2026, roughly three times the chamber median, and his largest recent donor industry was Securities & Investment — associations that are correlation, not proof of any quid pro quo.
Public record
In Congress since
2019
Committees
Energy and Commerce House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Missed votes, 119th Congress
9.8% (66 of 674; median member 1.9%)
Campaign money, 2025–26 cycle
$2.7M raised · 23% from PACs & committees · $25K cash on hand FEC ↗
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 →
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
42
In March 2020, Crenshaw bought ~6 individual stocks (Amazon, Boeing, Southwest, SPX, Kinder Morgan) as Congress debated/passed the CARES Act, with several purchases dated to the exact days of votes/signing; he failed to disclose them on time (STOCK Act violation), amended filings later, and admitted a likely fine. Some holdings (Kinder Morgan/Schlumberger energy; he sits on Energy & Commerce) overlap his oversight areas. Outside 2020, disclosed trades are limited and dominated by the broad-market SPY ETF, and reporting says he holds few individual stocks.
Published net-worth estimates rise over his tenure but conflict sharply across sources (roughly $1.4M to $4.4M for 2024), and much is attributed to a military pension, successful book royalties and real estate. No reliable disclosure-based figure isolates growth beyond salary and market returns, so no enrichment score is assigned (absence is not penalized).
Money → action alignmentcorrelation, not proof of any quid-pro-quo
20% weight
30
Correlation, not proof. Securities & Investment was the top industry to the Dan Crenshaw Victory Committee in 2024 (~$502,139), with AQR Capital Management the single largest donor (~$100,000); historically Gun Rights and Real Estate ranked among his top industries. He sits on Energy & Commerce and the Intelligence Committee. No evidence of any quid pro quo is asserted.
An FEC letter flagged roughly $9,000 in salon expenditures as a potential violation of federal rules barring personal use of campaign cash; this remains a flag rather than an adjudicated finding. Separately, the FEC fined his committee $42,000 in 2022 for failing to timely return >$223,000 in excessive/prohibited contributions — a compliance/refund failure, not personal-use spending.
No sourced evidence was found of family members lobbying or contracting tied to his office, or of a notable staff-to-lobbyist pipeline. Absence of data is not penalized.
Skips the job to fundraise
10% weight
30
Crenshaw missed 6.2% of roll-call votes (233 of 3,777) from January 2019 to June 2026 — roughly three times the ~2.1% median for serving representatives. He is an active fundraiser (top industry Securities & Investment) and public speaker, but the cited records do not directly tie specific missed votes to fundraising or paid-speech events.
Sources behind this score: 6 news reporting · 1 data aggregator · 3 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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