Josh Hawley
Public records indicate Josh Hawley's household does not trade individual stocks; his disclosures show concentration in mutual funds, a bank holding, and a real estate asset (Winecup Ranch), and he has been a lead sponsor of legislation (the PELOSI Act) to ban congressional stock trading. His estimated net worth rose from roughly $1.1 million around 2018 to roughly $2.8 million by 2025, a trajectory broadly consistent with Senate salary, book royalties, spousal income, and asset appreciation, though disclosure ranges make precise attribution impossible. Campaign and joint-fundraising committees drew large sums from donors including Smead Capital Management and, historically, David Humphreys of Tamko Building Products; any alignment between contributions and his votes is correlation, not evidence of a quid pro quo. A 2017 FEC complaint (MUR 7267) alleged improper "testing the waters" and vendor-coordination spending during his transition from a state campaign to a federal one, but no finding of personal-use enrichment was established in the sourced records reviewed. His spouse, Erin Morrow Hawley, is an appellate litigator with Alliance Defending Freedom and Lex Politica, raising commentary about issue conflicts but no documented lobbying of his office. Sourced data show no notable pattern of missed votes paired with heavy fundraising.
Public record
- In Congress since
- 2019
- Committees
- Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Judiciary - Missed votes, 119th Congress
- 4.0% (37 of 915; median member 1.9%)
- Campaign money, 2025–26 cycle
- $1.7M raised · 2% from PACs & committees · $856K 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: 2 data aggregator · 4 news reporting · 3 official record · 5 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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