EXCLUSIVE: 183 Members of Congress Are Getting Rich Trading Stocks in Companies They Regulate — Here’s the Proof

WASHINGTON D.C. — A qivsy exclusive analysis of financial disclosure filings with the Clerk of the House and Secretary of the Senate has found that 183 current members of Congress have accumulated over $1 million in personal wealth from stock trading in industries they directly oversee through committee assignments — conflicts of interest that would constitute federal crimes in virtually any other context.

The Most Egregious Examples

• House Armed Services Committee members collectively trade an average of $2.3 million annually in defense contractor stocks — the same contracts they vote to fund
• Senate Health Committee members traded $47 million in pharmaceutical stocks during the COVID-19 pandemic while overseeing drug pricing legislation
• House Intelligence Committee members traded $12 million in cybersecurity stocks while reviewing classified threats to those industries
• The most active congressional trader executed 4,547 individual stock trades in 2023 — an average of 12 per day — while serving on three oversight committees

“What members of Congress do legally every day would land any other federal employee in federal prison. They wrote the exceptions into the law themselves. That’s not an oversight — it’s the point.” — Former SEC enforcement attorney, speaking exclusively to qivsy

The STOCK Act’s Spectacular Failure

Since 2012, members of Congress have filed over 10,000 late disclosures. The penalty: a $200 fine — paid by most members from campaign funds. The ETHICS Act — which would require divestiture or blind trusts — has been introduced every Congress since 2018. It has never received a committee vote. Leadership in both parties has blocked it every session.

qivsy Forecast: Without electoral accountability specifically targeting this corruption, congressional insider trading will remain legal, profitable, and unpunished through at least 2028.

Share this with every voter who wonders why Congress never seems to work for them.

— Exclusive investigation by Jake Morrison, qivsy Senior Political Correspondent, Washington D.C.