🏛️ US Congress Stock Trades & Financial Disclosures (STOCK Act)

Every stock trade disclosed by US House Representatives — parsed straight from the official House Clerk Periodic Transaction Reports (PTRs) and enriched with everything people actually want to know: who traded, their party / state / district, the ticker & company, buy vs sell, the owner (self / spouse), the dollar amount (range + estimate), the trade & disclosure dates, and — critically — whether the trade was disclosed late under the STOCK Act's 45-day rule.

✅ Official source. disclosures-clerk.house.gov (public, free, no API key, no block) + member party lookup from the open congress-legislators project.

⚡ Why this is the most complete congress-trades scraper

• 👤 Full politician detail — name, party, state, district, chamber, bioguide ID
• 📈 Ticker + company for every trade, asset type (stock / options / etc.)
• 🔁 Buy / sell / exchange + owner (self, spouse, joint, dependent)
• 💲 Amount as the disclosed range plus a computed min / max / estimate
• 🕒 Trade date, disclosure date, and disclosure-lag in days
• ⚖️ STOCK Act compliance flag — On time / Late / Severely late (find the illegal-late disclosures everyone talks about)
• 🔗 Direct link to the official PTR filing
• 📊 Analytics — most-traded tickers, most-active members, buy vs sell, by party, late-disclosure count, estimated total volume
• 🧹 Zero-null schema · CSV export · 🤖 works as a tool for AI agents (ChatGPT / Claude) via Apify MCP

🎯 Perfect for

• Retail investors — mirror or watch what Congress is buying/selling
• Journalists & watchdogs — spot late disclosures and conflicts of interest
• Quant / fintech — feed clean congressional-trading signals into models
• Researchers — STOCK Act compliance and political-trading analysis

📋 Input

Field	Description
years	Disclosure year(s), e.g. ["2024"] or ["2024","2025"]
representative	Filter by politician name (e.g. Pelosi, Green)
ticker	Only trades of a symbol (e.g. NVDA)
transactionType	Purchase, Sale or Exchange
party / state	Filter by party or 2-letter state
minAmount	Only trades at/above this dollar amount
startDate / endDate	Trade-date range (YYYY-MM-DD)
maxResults / maxFilings	Result & scan limits

Example input

{
  "years": ["2024"],
  "transactionType": "Purchase",
  "minAmount": 50000,
  "maxResults": 300
}

📤 Output (one row per trade)

{
  "representative": "Rick W. Allen",
  "party": "Republican",
  "chamber": "House",
  "state": "GA",
  "district": "12",
  "bioguide_id": "A000372",
  "ticker": "ALB",
  "asset_name": "Albemarle Corporation",
  "asset_type": "Stock",
  "transaction_type": "Sale",
  "owner": "Spouse",
  "transaction_date": "12/21/2023",
  "disclosure_date": "01/08/2024",
  "days_to_disclose": 18,
  "disclosure_lag_days": 21,
  "compliance_status": "On time",
  "amount_range": "$1,001 - $15,000",
  "amount_min": 1001,
  "amount_max": 15000,
  "amount_estimate": 8000,
  "ptr_url": "https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/ptr-pdfs/2024/20024277.pdf",
  "source": "US House Clerk (STOCK Act PTR)",
  "record_type": "congress_trade"
}

A SUMMARY (analytics) and DATA_CSV are also saved to the run's key-value store.

❓ FAQ

Where is the data from? The official US House Clerk financial-disclosure PTRs (public record). Party/state come from the open congress-legislators dataset.

What is the STOCK Act compliance flag? Members must disclose trades within 45 days. compliance_status flags each trade On time, Late, or Severely late.

Does it cover the Senate? This build covers the US House (live, current). Senate coverage is planned.

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