Who's the Next Pelosi? Congress Members to Watch in 2026

Counted from individual disclosed transactions between 1 January 2025 and 21 August 2026. Bulk portfolio filings are excluded, which matters more than it sounds: of the 8,675 congressional transactions we logged in this window, 4,494 arrived inside bulk filings that report hundreds of positions on a single date. Those reflect a managed account being reported, not a series of decisions, and counting them is how you end up ranking a member with 367 "trades" that were all one document.

A high trade count usually says more about how someone's money is managed than about conviction. Members who file often across a wide spread of tickers, like Boozman across 123 names or Cisneros across 193, are typically reporting an actively managed account rather than making individual calls. The members worth a second look are the ones with a narrow ticker list and a high filing count, because that pattern is closer to deliberate, repeated positioning in a handful of names. On that measure April McClain Delaney (39 tickers across 18 filings), David Taylor (27 across 24) and Cleo Fields (28 across 17) look more like decisions than like an account statement.

Concentration at the top is heavy and unsurprising. Across the same window, excluding bulk filings, the most frequently traded names were Microsoft (127 transactions from 33 different filers), Nvidia (113 from 21), Amazon (78 from 24), Meta (57 from 16) and Alphabet (57 from 18). Congressional trading is, in aggregate, a large-cap technology story much more than it is a story about obscure policy-adjacent smallcaps.

No tracker can show you a congressional trade before it is disclosed, and the STOCK Act allows up to 45 days to report. In our non-bulk sample the median gap between transaction and disclosure was 24 days, with 236 transactions, about 7%, arriving past the 45-day deadline. So watching a specific member is not a way to trade alongside them in real time. It is a way to see what a pattern looks like once it becomes public, which is a slower and more honest use of the data.

Pick members by pattern rather than by fame. A member who files repeatedly into the same small group of tickers is more informative than one with a bigger raw number, and reading a congressional purchase next to insider Form 4 activity on the same stock is usually where the useful context appears. AlphaYou tracks every filer in both chambers, so you can follow a specific member and get an alert when a new filing posts rather than checking a dashboard.