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Jack Reed

D Democrat · Senator, Rhode Island
9
Low self-dealing
4/6 components have data
#169 of 193 scored

Reed, who chairs/leads on the Senate Armed Services Committee, owns no individual stocks (holding only mutual funds, ETFs, and a bank deposit) and has co-sponsored legislation to clarify and ban insider trading. He has never been accused of insider trading or found in STOCK Act breach. His disclosed net worth is modest and near zero. His floor-vote attendance is strong (0.5% missed). His record shows no sourced self-dealing flags.

Public record

In Congress since
1991
Committees
Armed Services (Ranking Member)
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (Ex Officio)
Appropriations
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Missed votes, 119th Congress
0.9% (8 of 915; median member 1.9%)
Campaign money, 2025–26 cycle
$3.4M raised · 34% from PACs & committees · $3.1M cash on hand FEC ↗

The stock-trading ban

Senate cloture on H.R. 7008, Sep 30, 2026
No
Cosponsored a ban bill
S. 1879 S. 5320

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
Reed owns no individual stocks (holdings limited to mutual funds, sector ETFs such as XLV/XLK/SMH, and a credit-union deposit) and has never been found in STOCK Act breach. Scored 0 per rubric for no individual-stock trading. Note: sector-ETF holdings overlap committee areas but ETFs are not individual stocks.
Net-worth enrichment in office
15% weight
0
Reed's 2023 disclosed net worth is between roughly -$506,000 and $235,000, among the lowest in the Senate, showing no abnormal enrichment over tenure.
Money → action alignmentcorrelation, not proof of any quid-pro-quo
20% weight
30
Correlation, not proof. As the lead Democrat on Armed Services, Reed receives concentrated defense-sector contributions while shaping the annual NDAA; defense contractors lobby heavily around that bill. No quid-pro-quo asserted, and Rhode Island has a large defense economy.
Campaign-fund personal useno data
15% weight
—
No sourced evidence of campaign or leadership-PAC funds used for personal benefit. Insufficient data; absence not penalized.
Revolving door & familyno data
15% weight
—
No sourced evidence of family lobbying, office-tied contracts, or a staff-to-lobbyist pipeline specific to Reed located. Insufficient data.
Skips the job to fundraise
10% weight
0
Reed missed 49 of 10,012 roll-call votes (0.5%) over his career, far better than the 2.8% median. No evidence of duties neglected for fundraising or paid speeches.

Sources behind this score: 3 data aggregator · 2 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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