Every stock trade a member of Congress makes is public record under the STOCK Act, filed as a Periodic Transaction Report on the House and Senate disclosure portals. Public does not mean usable: the filings are per-member documents split across two portals, and a fair number are scanned images. The Congress Financial Disclosures and Stock Trades API turns the whole record into a queryable dataset. Filter by member, ticker, or date range and get one clean JSON row per transaction: who traded, what, which direction, the filed amount bracket, and the dates and filing IDs to verify it.

It is built for journalists doing accountability reporting, compliance and ESG teams screening for conflicts, quants testing whether disclosed trades carry signal, and transparency advocates who just want the record in a spreadsheet. Billing is per transaction returned with a hard cap you set, so a small query costs very little.

Example Tasks & Use Cases

Track Nancy Pelosi stock trades - the member-watch recipe: one last name, a date range, every disclosed transaction with brackets and filing IDs.

Track congress Nvidia stock trades - flip the question to who in Congress is trading one ticker, with the same pattern ready for Tesla, Apple, and more.

Track congress Tesla stock trades - every disclosed Tesla transaction across all members, brackets and dates included.

Get congress stock disclosures last year - date range only, which produces the base dataset for any across-all-members analysis.

Track US congress stock trades daily - pair it with an Apify Schedule so new disclosures land in your dataset the day they are filed, the way newsroom tip sheets get built.

Works with MCP

The Actor runs over MCP, so Claude, Claude Code, and Cursor can call it as a tool. Ask which members traded semiconductor stocks this quarter and the agent returns rows with filing IDs instead of recollection. Start from the Congress Financial Disclosures and Stock Trades API.

Honest limits

Filings trail trades by 30 to 45 days under the reporting deadline, so this is research data, not a live feed. Amounts are the brackets members file (for example $1,001 to $15,000), because exact values do not exist in the source. Rows flagged as image quality came through OCR, so spot-check those against the source PDF when a number matters.

Keywords & Topics

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