About Capitol Markets
A research and journalism tool for the trades U.S. politicians legally must disclose — but rarely have to explain.
The 2012 STOCK Act requires every member of Congress (and many senior executive-branch officials) to publicly disclose any stock trade over $1,000 within 30 to 45 days. Those filings are public — but they live in scattered PDFs across two different government websites, with no built-in ranking, no alerts, and no way to see whether the lawmaker sits on a committee that regulates the company they just traded.
Capitol Markets is an independent news publication operating under the news-media exception in 5 U.S.C. app. § 105(c)(B) of the Ethics in Government Act. Every number on this site traces back to an official filing ondisclosures-clerk.house.gov,efdsearch.senate.gov, or oge.gov. We are not affiliated with any government agency, political party, campaign, or advocacy organization, and we do not accept paid placement, sponsorship, or advertising from any politician, party, lobbying firm, or publicly traded company that appears in our database. Our role is to make the public record readable, rankable, and shareable— the disclosure law’s premise is that voters and constituents can see this data; our work is to make that premise practical. We do not make trading recommendations.
If you spot a data bug, a parser miss, or a methodology question: email hello@capitolmarkets.org.