Congress Trading in Microsoft (MSFT)
Members of Congress reported 73 Microsoft transactions between 12 Nov 2025 and 2 Oct 2026 — 36 purchases, 27 sales and 10 other transactions, filed by 24 different members. Straight from the disclosures under the STOCK Act, updated daily.
Filings through 5 Nov 2026 · source: House Clerk & Senate EFD
Half the filings reached the public record within 20 days of the trade; the slowest took 183 days. Every figure here comes from the members’ own disclosures — no prices, no performance.
Why Microsoft shows up so often
Microsoft is the most frequently reported stock in Congress, and the reason is mundane: it sits in almost every large-cap index fund, managed account and blue-chip portfolio. Most filings are not conviction bets but the by-product of routine portfolio management — rebalancing, tax-loss harvesting, or a managed account trading on the member’s behalf.
That makes the pattern more interesting than any single filing. When purchases cluster in one month across several members, it usually follows a broad market move rather than anything specific to the company.
Most recent filings
| Member | Traded | Type | Amount | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pete Sessions R | 2026-10-02 | Sale$250K–500K | $250,001–500,000 | 25 d |
| Lisa McClain R | 2026-09-30 | Purchase$1K–15K | $1,001–15,000 | 12 d |
| Maria Elvira Salazar R | 2026-09-24 | Sale (partial)$1K–15K | $1,001–15,000 | 13 d |
| Michael Rulli R | 2026-09-28 | Sale (partial)$1K–15K | $1,001–15,000 | 4 d |
| Cleo Fields D | 2026-09-10 | Purchase$1K–15K | $1,001–15,000 | 21 d |
| Cleo Fields D | 2026-09-10 | Purchase$1K–15K | $1,001–15,000 | 21 d |
| Josh Gottheimer D | 2026-08-14 | Option purchase$250K–500K | $250,001–500,000 | 31 d |
| Josh Gottheimer D | 2026-08-14 | Option purchase$500K–1M | $500,001–1,000,000 | 31 d |
The 8 most recent of 73. Two rows for the same member on the same day are not duplicates — a member and a spouse file separately, and the owner field on the filing tells them apart.
The last twelve months
| Month | Purchases | Sales | Members | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Sep 2026 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| Aug 2026 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| Jul 2026 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| Jun 2026 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 8 |
| May 2026 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Apr 2026 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| Mar 2026 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 12 |
| Feb 2026 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 8 |
| Jan 2026 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| Dec 2025 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Nov 2025 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
By trade date, not filing date — a trade can appear in a filing months later. A month without a filing is shown with a zero, so a quiet stretch stays visible as one. The most recent month runs only to 27 Oct 2026 and is therefore incomplete.
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