Capitol Trades

The Capitol Trades dataset provides comprehensive financial disclosure reports from U.S. Senators, former Senators, and members of the House of Representatives, spanning 2012 to the present. This data is compliant with the Ethics in Government Act, Senate Rules, and the STOCK Act, ensuring transparency in congressional financial activities. The dataset includes transaction details, asset information, company performance, and reporting individual profiles. This dataset enables tracking politicians' trading patterns which can be a very valuable resource to quantitative hedge fund managers, financial analysts, and institutional investors.

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- 70% of transactions involve manual curation, filings come with no standardization, our analysts map company-level data with GVKEY-IID and other reliable identifiers.
- Manual processing of transaction footnotes and creating flags such as “DividendReinvestment”, “Exercise”, “ShortCover”, “ShortSell” and “Donation” as well as augmenting Stock Options with Strike Prices and Expiration Dates.

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**Main Tables**

- TRANSACTION_STATE
- REPORTING_INDIVIDUAL_STATE

**Example FIelds Included**

- Transaction ID
- Transaction Date
- Transaction Type
- Company ID
- Asset ID
- Amount
- Value
- Reporting Individual ID
- Political Party
- Chamber