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Judy Chu

D Democrat · Representative, California 28th district
34
Moderate self-dealing
4/6 components have data
#26 of 193 scored

Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA28) sits on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, including its Health Subcommittee. Her most notable accountability concern is individual stock trading: trackers parse roughly $11M in lifetime STOCK Act trades, and a 2025 disclosure shows a $100K-$250K buy and sell of Astrana Health (ASTH), a healthcare stock that directly overlaps her Health Subcommittee jurisdiction, raising sector-conflict and timing questions (correlation, not proof of wrongdoing). Her career donor base is led by health professionals, aligning with her committee role, though no specific quid-pro-quo is documented. She received a 2014 House Ethics letter of reproval for campaign use of House staff and obstructing the inquiry, but no campaign-funds-for-personal-use, revolving-door, or attendance problems are evident (2.3% missed votes, near the chamber median).

Public record

In Congress since
2009
Committees
Ways and Means
Budget
Missed votes, 119th Congress
0.3% (2 of 674; median member 1.9%)
Campaign money, 2025–26 cycle
$930K raised · 41% from PACs & committees · $3.7M cash on hand FEC ↗

The stock-trading ban

H.R. 7008 passage, Jul 22, 2026
No
Cosponsored a ban bill
H.R. 6731

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

2trades since Jan 2025
1buys
1sells
0filed past 45 days
$200K–$500Kdisclosed value range

Most-traded: ASTH ×2

TradedFiledOwnerAssetTypeAmount
Aug 19, 2025Aug 30, 2025SpouseASTH Astrana Health Inc. - Common Stock (ASTH) [ST]Buy$100,001 - $250,000filing ↗
Aug 19, 2025Aug 30, 2025SpouseASTH Astrana Health Inc. - Common Stock (ASTH) [ST]Sell$100,001 - $250,000filing ↗
Jan 10, 2024Jan 21, 2024SpouseAMEH Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. (AMEH) [ST]Buy$100,001 - $250,000filing ↗
Jan 10, 2024Jan 21, 2024SpouseAMEH Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. (AMEH) [ST]Sell$100,001 - $250,000filing ↗

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-tradinghousehold / spouse
25% weight
48
Active individual-stock trader; trackers parse ~$11M in lifetime STOCK Act trades across multiple companies. A 2025 disclosure shows a $100K-$250K buy AND sell of Astrana Health (ASTH), a healthcare-sector stock directly overlapping her Ways and Means Health Subcommittee jurisdiction. Sector-committee overlap and trading in a jurisdiction-relevant healthcare name elevate the score; not flagged as blind-trust or fully spouse-managed.
2025 buy and sell of $100K-$250K each in Astrana Health (ASTH), a healthcare stock; ~$11M lifetime trades parsed from STOCK Act filings.Data aggregatormarketbeat.com ↗Quiver parses up to $11.6M of trades from Chu's STOCK Act filings; ~$7.2M in trackable publicly traded assets.Data aggregatorquiverquant.com ↗
Net-worth enrichment in office
15% weight
30
Estimated net worth grew from ~$7.1M (2018) to ~$15.3M (2026 tracker estimate), roughly doubling. Much of the gain plausibly reflects market appreciation of an already-substantial portfolio rather than salary-anomalous enrichment, and pre-2018 wealth is not scored. Estimates are tracker-derived from disclosure ranges and may be imprecise; some growth above pure salary/market is suggested but not cleanly isolated.
Net worth estimated ~$15.3M (May 2026); 2018 estimate was ~$7.09M.Data aggregatorquiverquant.com ↗OpenSecrets 2018 estimated net worth ~$7,090,031.Reference databaseopensecrets.org ↗
Money → action alignmentcorrelation, not proof of any quid-pro-quo
20% weight
35
CORRELATION, NOT PROOF. Health Professionals are her top career industry donor (~$996K), aligning with her seat on the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over Medicare and healthcare reform. The concentration of health-sector money plus committee jurisdiction creates an apparent alignment, but no specific vote or bill traded for contributions is documented.
Top career industry donor is Health Professionals (~$996,207).Reference databaseopensecrets.org ↗Chu serves on Ways and Means Health Subcommittee with healthcare/Medicare jurisdiction.Official recordchu.house.gov ↗
Campaign-fund personal useno data
15% weight
—
No documented FEC personal-use violations. A 2014 House Ethics letter of reproval concerned campaign use of House staff and obstruction of the inquiry, not conversion of campaign funds to personal benefit, so it does not score under this component.
2014 letter of reproval was for using House staff for campaign work and obstructing the investigation; no personal-use-of-funds finding.Reference databaseballotpedia.org ↗
Revolving door & familyno data
15% weight
—
No evidence of family lobbying tied to her office or a staff-to-lobbyist pipeline. Husband Mike Eng is an attorney and former elected official (Monterey Park Council, CA Assembly), not a registered federal lobbyist; no family contracts tied to her office found.
Mike Eng is an immigration attorney and former CA Assembly member; no lobbying role documented.Reference databaseen.wikipedia.org ↗
Skips the job to fundraise
10% weight
5
Strong attendance: missed 236 of 10,229 roll-call votes (2.3%) from 2009-2026, near the chamber median (~2.1%). No evidence of heavy paid-speech activity or fundraising-driven absences.
Missed 2.3% of roll-call votes 2009-2026, on par with the ~2.1% median.Reference databasegovtrack.us ↗

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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