Steve Scalise
Steve Scalise (R-LA), House Majority Leader, has no record of trading individual stocks; tracking services estimate roughly $0 in publicly traded assets for his household, and his only disclosed asset is a small trust/bank account. His disclosed net worth has declined over his tenure—from a median near $240,000 when he entered Congress in 2008 to approximately negative $574,000 in 2024, largely reflecting disclosed mortgage and personal-loan liabilities against real estate whose value is not captured in disclosure totals; there is no evidence of net-worth enrichment beyond salary. Scalise is among the top House recipients of oil and gas money (roughly $1.8 million from fossil fuel interests and $2.7 million from energy/natural resources over his career) and is the lead sponsor of the energy-deregulation Lower Energy Costs Act (H.R.1), an alignment that reflects correlation between donor industries and his legislative agenda, not proof of any quid pro quo. His career missed-vote rate of about 5.7% is above the chamber median, though significant absences coincide with documented medical events (a 2017 shooting and a 2023 multiple myeloma diagnosis with stem-cell transplant). Former senior aides (e.g., chief of staff Brett Horton) have moved into lobbying/trade-group roles, a common staff-to-lobbyist pipeline, but no family lobbying or campaign-fund personal-use findings were located in available public records. Where data was unavailable (campaign personal-use spending, detailed PAC expenditures), no penalty was assigned.
Public record
- In Congress since
- 2008
- Committees
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- Missed votes, 119th Congress
- 2.4% (16 of 674; median member 1.9%)
- Campaign money, 2025–26 cycle
- $11M raised · 2% from PACs & committees · $3.9M 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 · 8 news reporting · 3 reference database · 1 official record. 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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