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The 45-day rule is a joke: how Congress files stock trades years late
The STOCK Act requires disclosure within 45 days. One in five House stock buys is filed late — one by 2,296 days — and the only penalty is a $200 fine members simply pay. The repeat offenders, ranked.
July 18, 2026 · 4 min · #accountability #leaderboard
Congress
When Congress sells a stock, does it tank? We checked 18,000 sales.
We tracked every disclosed House stock sale since 2013, entering at the disclosure date. The stocks they sell lag the S&P by a median −4.2% a year — a real but thin edge, and the COVID 'front-running' vanishes by 12 months.
July 18, 2026 · 5 min · #sells #accountability