Whose Trades Are They? Spouses, Children and Congress's Stock Disclosures
Most of them belong to the member's family. Of the 29,490 trades members of Congress have disclosed as of October 29, 2026, 79.4% sit in an account held by a spouse, by a dependent child, or jointly by the member and spouse (23,426 trades from 135 of the 222 members with a trade on file). 8.4% are marked as the member's own and another 12.2% leave the owner blank. Even if every blank were the member's own account, members would account for 20.6% of the record, about one trade in 5.
The STOCK Act requires members of Congress to disclose trades made by their spouse and dependent children, not only their own, and every line of a periodic transaction report names whose account the trade sits in. Most coverage reports a household’s trades under the member’s name. The counts here use that owner column for every transaction on file, in reports filed from January 1, 2023.
Key numbers
- As of October 29, 2026, 79.4% of the transactions members of Congress have disclosed sit in a spouse, dependent-child or joint account: 23,426 of the 29,490 transactions reported in STOCK Act filings since January 1, 2023.
- Of the 29,490 transactions members of Congress disclosed between January 1, 2023 and October 29, 2026, 12,165 (41.3%) are in a spouse's account, 7,925 (26.9%) in a dependent child's, 3,336 (11.3%) in a joint account, 2,474 (8.4%) are marked as the member's own and 3,590 (12.2%) leave the owner blank.
- Counting every transaction with a blank owner as the member's own, members' own accounts hold at most 6,064 of the 29,490 transactions members of Congress disclosed between January 1, 2023 and October 29, 2026 (20.6%).
- The household of Rohit Khanna (D-CA) has the most family-account transactions in Congress: 13,076 disclosed transactions as of October 29, 2026, 44.3% of all 29,490 on record, 12,966 of them in spouse, dependent-child or joint accounts. Counting every other member only, 63.7% of 16,414 transactions are in a family account.
- 135 of the 222 members of Congress with a disclosed transaction between January 1, 2023 and October 29, 2026 reported at least one in a spouse, dependent-child or joint account: 94 reported a spouse's transaction, 60 a joint-account transaction and 18 a dependent child's.
- Of the 122 members of Congress with 10 or more disclosed transactions as of October 29, 2026, 65 made more than half of them in a spouse, dependent-child or joint account, 33 disclosed only family-account transactions and 31 disclosed none. The median member made 61% of their transactions in a family account.
- As of October 29, 2026, 80.8% of the 27,296 transactions disclosed by House members since January 1, 2023 are in spouse, dependent-child or joint accounts, against 62.6% of the 2,194 disclosed by senators since January 6, 2026, the start of the Senate record here.
| Owner on the filing | Trades | Share | Members | Purchases |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spouse | 12,165 | 41.3% | 94 | 59.2% |
| Dependent child | 7,925 | 26.9% | 18 | 64.8% |
| Joint (member and spouse) | 3,336 | 11.3% | 60 | 44.2% |
| The member (self) | 2,474 | 8.4% | 80 | 65.2% |
| Owner left blank | 3,590 | 12.2% | 120 | 56.8% |
One household moves the total
The trade-weighted number is dominated by whoever trades most, and one household trades far more than anyone else. Rohit Khanna (D-CA) has disclosed 13,076 trades, 44.3% of every trade on file, and 12,966 of them are in spouse, child or joint accounts. That household alone holds 77% of all dependent-child trades (6,120 of 7,925), which is why only 18 members report any child trades at all yet the category is the second largest.
Take that household out and recount: 63.7% of the remaining 16,414 trades are in a family account, 14.7% are marked self and 21.6% are blank. The share falls, and it is still a clear majority.
| Most family-account trades | Trades | Spouse | Child | Joint | Self | Blank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rohit Khanna D · house · CA | 13,076 | 6,845 | 6,120 | 1 | 62 | 48 |
| Michael T. McCaul R · house · TX | 4,219 | 2,419 | 1,196 | 40 | 561 | 3 |
| Josh Gottheimer D · house · NJ | 898 | 0 | 0 | 896 | 0 | 2 |
| Richard Blumenthal D · senate · CT | 521 | 521 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kevin Hern R · house · OK | 382 | 0 | 6 | 360 | 9 | 7 |
| April McClain Delaney D · house · MD | 346 | 0 | 346 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scott H. Peters D · house · CA | 290 | 290 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Suzan K. DelBene D · house · WA | 224 | 5 | 0 | 219 | 0 | 0 |
Member by member
Count every member once instead. Of the 122 members with at least 10 disclosed trades, 65 made more than half of them in a family account, and the typical member made 61% there. 33 of them (27.0%) disclosed only family-account trades, never one marked as their own or left blank, and 31 disclosed none. A member’s name on a trade is often a household label.
House and Senate
The pattern is stronger in the House, where 80.8% of 27,296 trades are in family accounts, than in the Senate, at 62.6% of 2,194. Senators mark 37.4% of their trades as their own; House members 6.1%, plus 13.2% left blank. Blanks appear only on House reports, where the owner column is typically left empty for assets the member holds directly, so the House self share is best read as a range.
| Year disclosed | Trades | Family account | Owner blank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6,378 | 85.1% | 9.6% |
| 2024 | 6,757 | 86.2% | 7.3% |
| 2025 | 8,885 | 74.6% | 18.0% |
| 2026 | 7,470 | 74.3% | 11.9% |
Who files late
Family-account trades are not filed later than the member’s own. The opposite, on the raw numbers: spouse trades miss the 45-day deadline 4.6% of the time and dependent-child trades 0.7%, while trades marked self are late 36.0%. That self figure belongs mostly to one filer: Alan Armstrong accounts for 701 of the 879 late self trades. Without that record, self trades are late 10.2% of the time, close to joint accounts at 10.2%.
| Owner on the filing | Dated trades | Median days to disclose | Past 45 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spouse | 12,038 | 25 | 4.6% |
| Dependent child | 7,877 | 25 | 0.7% |
| Joint (member and spouse) | 3,326 | 24 | 10.2% |
| The member (self) | 2,442 | 33 | 36.0% |
| Owner left blank | 3,546 | 21 | 7.4% |
Why the owner column matters
Proposals to restrict stock trading by members of Congress differ on whether they reach spouses and dependent children. The record above is the measure of what that choice covers: a rule limited to the member’s own account would apply to roughly one disclosed trade in 5, counting every blank as the member’s. That is a description of the disclosures, not a view on any bill. For how to read the owner code on a filing yourself, see How to Track Congress Stock Trades; for the members who file the most, see the most active traders in Congress; and for the dollar ranges those trades are reported in, see how big Congress’s stock trades are.
Methodology and honest caveats
The owner comes verbatim from each line of the periodic transaction report as parsed: Senate reports name Self, Spouse, Joint or Child; House reports use SP, DC and JT codes and often leave the column empty for the member’s own assets. A blank can also be a line we could not read cleanly, so blanks stay in their own row and the self share is quoted as a range. Trades are counted as disclosed lines; one report can carry hundreds, and a single household’s volume can set a total, which is why the member-weighted and without-the-largest-household frames are shown. Lag figures use the same 0-to-1000-day window as the late-filer ranking to exclude source-document date typos. Figures are computed live and update as new filings arrive, so they may differ from the ones quoted the day this was published. Members are counted once per person. How filings are collected and parsed is in the methodology.
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Coldpine is a publisher of intelligence on public Congressional disclosures. Owner and timing figures are computed from the public filings and describe the disclosures only; they are not evidence of wrongdoing by any member or family member. This is informational only, not investment advice, and not a suggestion to buy, sell, or copy anyone’s trades.