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Tammy Duckworth

D Democrat · Senator, Illinois
12
Low self-dealing
4/6 components have data
#154 of 193 scored

Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) presents a relatively clean financial-accountability profile. STOCK Act filings show a modest set of individual-stock sales (NextEra, Ingersoll Rand/ITW, Verizon, Caterpillar, Mondelez) between roughly 2017 and 2023, but her holdings are dominated by diversified mutual funds, ETFs, USAA accounts, and a 529 plan rather than concentrated single-stock positions; she is also a public co-sponsor of the ETHICS Act and Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act. Her estimated net worth (~$1.3M, among the lower half of the Senate) shows no evidence of anomalous enrichment beyond salary and market growth. No FEC personal-use findings, no family lobbying ties (her husband is a career military/government IT official), and her 4.9% missed-vote rate is modestly above the Senate median but within normal ranges and not paired with documented self-dealing. Money-influence and industry-concentration data were not fully retrievable and are labeled correlation-only where partial.

Public record

In Congress since
2013
Committees
Armed Services
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Foreign Relations
Veterans' Affairs
Missed votes, 119th Congress
6.6% (60 of 915; median member 1.9%)
Campaign money, 2025–26 cycle
$5.1M raised · 3% from PACs & committees · $4.1M cash on hand FEC ↗

The stock-trading ban

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

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
22
STOCK Act filings show a handful of individual-stock sales (NEE, ITW, VZ, CAT, MDLZ), $15K-$50K each, between ~2017-2023; up to ~$1.0M parsed trade volume lifetime. Portfolio is mostly diversified funds/ETFs (USAA, Vanguard VEU, American Funds), not concentrated single stocks. No evidence of suspicious timing or market-beating returns. She co-sponsors a congressional stock-trading ban. Low-to-moderate: some individual-stock trading exists but is infrequent and diversified.
Notable individual-stock sales in NextEra (NEE), Ingersoll Rand (ITW), Verizon (VZ), Caterpillar (CAT), Mondelez (MDLZ), $15K-$50K each, 2017-2023; up to $1.0M trades parsed from STOCK Act filings; holdings mostly funds/ETFs.Data aggregatorquiverquant.com ↗Duckworth co-sponsored the ETHICS Act and Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act to prohibit members and spouses from trading securities.Official recordduckworth.senate.gov ↗
Net-worth enrichment in office
15% weight
8
Estimated net worth ~$1.2M-$1.3M as of 2025, ranking ~299th in Congress (lower half). Growth over her Senate tenure (since 2017) is consistent with salary plus market appreciation of diversified holdings; no documented anomalous jump beyond salary and market returns. Pre-office wealth not scored.
Estimated net worth $1.3M as of Aug 2025, 299th highest in Congress; ~$790.1K in publicly traded assets.Data aggregatorquiverquant.com ↗
Money → action alignmentcorrelation, not proof of any quid-pro-quono data
20% weight
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CORRELATION, NOT PROOF. Detailed industry-donor concentration data from OpenSecrets was not retrievable (403). No specific donor-aligned vote/bill pattern could be sourced. No penalty assessed for absence of data per rubric.
OpenSecrets maintains Duckworth's industry/contributor data, but the detailed industry breakdown was not retrievable in this research.Reference databaseopensecrets.org ↗
Campaign-fund personal useno data
15% weight
—
No FEC findings or credible allegations of personal use of campaign or leadership-PAC funds were located. Per rubric, absence of data yields no penalty.
FEC candidate record for Duckworth; no personal-use violation found in public records.Official recordfec.gov ↗
Revolving door & family
15% weight
0
No family lobbying or office-tied contracts found. Husband Bryan Bowlsbey is a career military/government IT official (Deputy CIO at National Defense University), with no lobbying activity identified. No documented staff-to-lobbyist pipeline tied to her office.
Husband Bryan Bowlsbey serves as Deputy CIO at National Defense University, a retired Army officer; no lobbying activities identified.Reference databaseen.wikipedia.org ↗
Skips the job to fundraise
10% weight
12
Missed 185 of 3,775 roll-call votes (4.9%) Jan 2013-Jun 2026, above the Senate median of ~2.8%; GovTrack notes absences often relate to medical/life events (she is a double amputee and gave birth in office). Active fundraising (e.g., $961K disclosed in a Q2 2025 FEC filing) is routine for a senator and not tied to documented neglect of duties. Mild elevation, largely explainable.
Missed 185 of 3,775 votes (4.9%), worse than the 2.8% median for serving senators.Reference databasegovtrack.us ↗Disclosed $961.0K of new fundraising in a Q2 2025 FEC filing.Data aggregatornasdaq.com ↗

Sources behind this score: 3 data aggregator · 2 official record · 3 reference database. 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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