Corrections & clarifications

Capitol Markets is built on public-record data and editorial framing of that data. Both layers can be wrong:

• A scraper can mis-parse a House Clerk PDF.
• A politician's name can collide with a former member of the same chamber.
• Our committee-conflict scoring can flag a trade whose sector overlap is too thin to be meaningful.
• Our editorial copy can imply more than the data supports.

When any of those happen, we want to know — and we want to fix it on the public record, not quietly in a database.

• Factual errors — wrong politician, wrong ticker, wrong amount, wrong date, wrong committee assignment, wrong P&L.
• Attribution errors — a trade attributed to the wrong owner type (Self / Spouse / Joint / Dependent).
• Methodology errors — a flag that mis-reads our own published methodology.
• Misleading framing — copy that reads as an accusation rather than a finding.
• Outdated public-record data — a filing that has since been amended or superseded by the politician's office.

We will not change a piece because the subject of a public-record filing is unhappy with how the public record reads. The trade is on the official disclosure portal; we report what is filed.

We will not retract a conflict flag unless the underlying committee assignment, ticker, or sector classification is incorrect. The flag is not an accusation — it is a structural overlap derived from published committee jurisdictions.

For every correction, we add a dated Correctionnote at the top of the affected /news article (and, where relevant, at the top of the politician's profile page). The original copy is preserved below the note so readers can see what was changed and why.

Corrections to underlying data (parser fixes, deduplication merges, ticker re-classification) are tracked in our public commit log so technical readers can audit the diff.

Email corrections@capitolmarkets.org with:

• A link to the page or article in question
• The specific claim or data point you believe is wrong
• The source you'd like us to consult (a primary-source URL where possible)
• Optionally — your name and affiliation, if you'd like to be credited

We acknowledge every correction email within 2 business days. We commit to a published outcome (correction issued, or correction declined with reasoning) within 5 business days for routine cases, longer when the source data needs a fresh primary-source check.

If you are a member of Congress, an executive-branch official, or a person named in a Capitol Markets article, you have a standing invitation to respond on the record. Email reply@capitolmarkets.org and we will append your response to the article in question, unedited, alongside the original copy. We do not require pre-publication review — but post-publication response is always available.

We're a young publication. As of the launch of this policy (May 2026), no public corrections have been issued. When the first one lands, this section becomes a reverse-chronological log with the article URL, the date, and a one-line summary.