Which States' Members of Congress Trade the Most Stocks?

Every state, ranked

A member of Congress who buys or sells a stock, bond or other security worth more than $1,000 has to file a periodic transaction report within 45 days. The table counts every transaction on the reports filed in 2026 so far, grouped by the state the member represents. Trades in a spouse’s or dependent child’s account go on the member’s report and count for the member. The last two columns name the member with the most transactions in the state and that member’s share of the state’s count.

15 of the 43 states have exactly one member with a reported transaction, so their row is that member’s record. Each state name links to its delegation page, which lists every senator and representative from the state with a report on file since 2023.

Without each state’s largest filer

Because the heaviest filers are so far ahead of everyone else, the ranking changes once each state’s largest filer is set aside. Oklahoma (210), California (187) and Florida (187) then lead. Rohit Khanna alone reported 28.3% of every transaction in periodic transaction reports filed from January 1, 2026 through October 29, 2026; who trades the most, member by member, is in the most active stock traders in Congress.

Members, not transactions

Counting members instead of transactions gives a different order: Texas has 14, California has 12 and Florida has 10 members with at least one reported transaction this year. Larger delegations have more members who could trade, so this count tends to follow the size of the delegation. How many members trade at all, chamber by chamber, is in how many members of Congress trade stocks.

States with no reported trade

No senator or representative from Idaho, Iowa, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming has reported a securities transaction on a report filed in 2026 so far. Either none of them bought or sold a reportable security worth more than $1,000 this year, or a report for such a trade is not yet due. It says nothing about what they hold.

What this does and does not show

These are counts of reported transactions, not dollar amounts and not holdings. One report can list hundreds of small trades in a managed account, and one large sale can be a single line, so a high count is not the same as a large sum of money. A member who holds shares all year and neither buys nor sells files no periodic transaction report. Reporting a trade is what the law requires, and none of these counts is evidence of wrongdoing by any member.

Methodology and honest caveats

The figures cover periodic transaction reports filed from January 1, 2026 through October 29, 2026. Coldpine’s House record goes back to January 2023, but its Senate record begins with reports filed in January 2026, so the state totals start there to treat both chambers alike. A transaction counts in the year its report was filed, whenever the trade took place. Each member is counted once per state, and a member who appears under two spellings, or who moved from the House to the Senate, is counted once. The state is the one on the member’s roster row, and a member with no state on the roster is left out. Washington, DC and Puerto Rico send non-voting delegates and are left out of the count of 50 states. How we parse filings is set out in our methodology. Figures are computed live and update as new filings arrive, so they may differ from the ones quoted the day this was published.