Search Congress’ personal finances with Insider’s exclusive database – Business Insider
- Insider has published exclusive databases from members of Congress’ personal financial disclosures.
- The searchable, sortable information goes far beyond what Congress itself provides the public.
- Use the data to spot potential conflicts between lawmakers’ responsibilities and personal finances.
Insider has compiled and analyzed hundreds of US House and Senate financial disclosures to create a searchable, sortable, and near-complete accounting of members of Congress’ personal finances.
The databases — one for the Senate and one for the House — include members of Congress’ individual assets, stock transactions, debts, and other outside income. They are the most complete and detailed public accounting of the individual finances of federal lawmakers.
Insider’s “Conflicted Congress” investigation used this data to reveal how members of the US House and Senate often disregard their own ethical regulations, which are designed to combat corruption and curb conflicts of interest.
Some have done this by violating federal conflicts-of-interest laws. Others have invested in the same industries they’re tasked with regulating. Still more have bought and sold stock in
healthcare companies
— most notably COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers — at times when they were making life-and-death decisions about federal pandemic policy.
You can now use the data to scrutinize members of Congress’ finances yourself.
Search by keyword to look for specific stocks, businesses, or banks. Find out who received gifts valued at many thousands of dollars. Learn which lawmakers earn huge paydays by writing books. Filter by income type to see the most popular ways members accrue their wealth. You can sort the data by name, state, and asset value, among other values.
Both databases are organized into tabs that reflect sections of the original financial-disclosure documents, which members of Congress filed using either electronic forms or on paper — in a few cases, handwritten.
Each tab details different financial categories for members of Congress. These include assets, unearned income, transactions, and liabilities. Select individual tabs to see all entries for that specific financial category. You can further search within, filter, or sort each tab to narrow your results.
Methodology
Insider compiled the congressional personal financial databases using publicly available annual financial disclosures filed by each member of Congress. Members of Congress submitted these disclosures during the course of several months beginning in the spring of 2021. The documents generally detail their personal finances for calendar year 2020. Insider did not include any financial disclosures or amendments submitted after November 12, 2021.
The disclosures were most often submitted as non-machine-readable PDFs or, in more than 40 instances, handwritten. …….