Center for Responsive Politics

109 days ago - Every year lawmakers and members of the executive branch are required to disclose their personal investments — their stocks, bonds and mutual funds, their mortgages, their income (excluding their government salaries), transactions, gifts they receive and more. Doing so allows the public to monitor potential conflicts of interest and decide if their lawmakers are backing up their political words with personal action. It’s difficult, however, to get a sense of just how much the members of Congress have invested because the forms only require that they report what range of values the asset falls in.