Rand Paul (R-KY) has served in the Senate since 2011 and chairs the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee while also sitting on the HELP (health) and Foreign Relations committees. The household's only reported individual-stock transaction is his wife Kelley Paul's February 26, 2020 purchase of between $1,001 and $15,000 of Gilead Sciences, maker of the COVID-19 antiviral remdesivir; this was disclosed roughly 16 months late, in violation of the STOCK Act's 45-day deadline, though his office characterized it as a clerical oversight and said the investment lost money. Multiple cycles of OpenSecrets data show his campaign drawing heavily on conservative, gun-rights, and tobacco-aligned donors, but no quid-pro-quo can be asserted. Watchdog reports from Issue One and the Campaign Legal Center repeatedly singled out his leadership PAC (RAND PAC) for spending large sums on overseas travel, luxury hotels, limousines, and resort dining while giving relatively little to other Republicans, and his reelection committee spent roughly $50,000 on a Scandinavia trip his office defended as fundraising. His reported net worth (roughly $0.65M-$2.4M range) is modest for a long-serving senator with prior income as an eye surgeon. No public reporting surfaced documenting family lobbying, government contracting, or a staff-to-lobbyist pipeline tied to his office.
Public record
In Congress since
2011
Committees
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (Chairman) Foreign Relations Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Missed votes, 119th Congress
4.5% (41 of 915; median member 1.9%)
Campaign money, 2025–26 cycle
$3.9M raised · 2% from PACs & committees · $6.7M cash on hand FEC ↗
The stock-trading ban
Senate cloture on H.R. 7008, Sep 30, 2026
Yes
Cosponsored a ban bill
None
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
38
The Paul household's only reported individual-stock trade in over a decade is Kelley Paul's Feb 26, 2020 purchase of $1,001-$15,000 of Gilead (maker of COVID antiviral remdesivir), disclosed ~16 months late in violation of the STOCK Act. The trade occurred after congressional COVID briefings but before broad public awareness, and falls in a sector (pharma/health) overseen by Paul's HELP committee. Single small trade, reportedly a money-loser; elevated by sector overlap and suspicious timing, but otherwise the household does not actively trade.
Disclosures place Paul's net worth in a roughly $0.65M-$2.4M range, modest for a senator with 15 years' tenure. He had pre-office income as an eye surgeon, and book sales/medical-practice income (which predate or are independent of office) explain much of his wealth. No evidence of net-worth growth markedly beyond salary and broad-market returns attributable to office.
Money → action alignmentcorrelation, not proof of any quid-pro-quo
20% weight
30
CORRELATION, NOT PROOF. OpenSecrets shows Paul as a top recipient from gun-rights (#1), Republican/conservative (#1), and tobacco (#2) industries, and he is backed by ideological groups like Club for Growth (95% lifetime rating). His libertarian voting record aligns with these donor industries' preferences, but this reflects shared ideology as much as donor influence; no quid-pro-quo is asserted.
Watchdog groups (Issue One, Campaign Legal Center) repeatedly singled out Paul's leadership PAC (RAND PAC) for spending heavily on personal-benefit categories: $11,043 at Italy/Malta restaurants, $4,492 on a Rome limousine, $1,904 at an Athens hotel, plus resort stays, while giving only ~7-12% to fellow Republicans. His reelection committee separately spent ~$50,000 on a Scandinavia trip (incl. $13,627 at a five-star Stockholm hotel and $17,742 on luxury travel service), which his office defended as fundraising. Pattern of donor-funded luxury travel/dining flagged as personal-benefit-adjacent, though Paul calls it permissible political activity.
No public reporting was found documenting family members lobbying or contracting in connection with Paul's office, nor a notable staff-to-lobbyist pipeline. Absence of data; not scored as a penalty.
Skips the job to fundraise
10% weight
22
GovTrack records Paul missing roughly 5.1% of lifetime roll-call votes (279 of 5,432 through mid-2026), notably above the ~2.8% median for sitting senators. Some missed-vote periods coincided with his 2015-2016 presidential run and donor-funded travel, but no specific reporting directly ties individual missed votes to paid speeches or fundraising events. Elevated absenteeism, weak direct linkage to fundraising.
Sources behind this score: 7 news reporting · 1 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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