Agriculture · Transportation · Small Business · R-PA8 · Class of 2025
Rob Bresnahan: 584 Trades in Six Months — Then the Individual-Stock Buying Stopped
Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA8) arrived in January 2025 and became one of the freshman
class's most active filers almost immediately: 584 STOCK Act disclosures across
300+ tickers, totaling $1.7M–$11.2M in disclosed bands —
nearly all of it in his first six months. Then it stopped. His last disclosed individual-stock purchases
are Coinbase and Circle on June 24, 2025. Since then: index ETFs, two exits, and —
in 2026 — nothing but Pennsylvania municipal bonds and a U.S. Treasury note.
Every filing arrived inside the 45-day deadline. Here is the wind-down, dated from the record.
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RRep./Republican/Agriculture · T&I · Small Business
Rob Bresnahan
Pennsylvania's 8th District · Scranton / Wilkes-Barre/U.S. House of Representatives
In Congress since January 2025/300+ tickers in six months/0 late filings
The freshman class's cautionary arc, in one record: 584 filings across 300+ tickers in his first months — then the last individual-stock purchases on June 24, 2025, and a 2026 filing history that is entirely municipal bonds and a Treasury note.
Cross-referenced: 103,887 deduplicated STOCK Act filings × committee calendars
All data from public STOCK Act filings, deduplicated and cross-referenced by GovGreed with committee
assignments, bill activity, and campaign contributions. Congress discloses dollar bands,
never exact amounts — every figure on this page is a band or a band total. Updated daily.
Section 01 · Trading Overview
Trading Overview
Rob Bresnahan's 2024 campaign in northeastern Pennsylvania included support for banning stock trading
by members of Congress — a position that was widely reported. Then his first-year filings made him
one of the most active filers in the freshman class: 584 deduplicated STOCK Act disclosures,
245 purchases and 339 sales, across more than 300 tickers, totaling
$1.7M–$11.2M in disclosed bands. The breadth — hundreds of names, mostly
small bands, roughly balanced two-way flow — reads as managed-account activity rather than
concentrated conviction picks.
The national press coverage that followed was sustained. In mid-2025, Bresnahan publicly committed to
stop trading individual stocks. GovGreed does not grade intentions — it tracks filings. So here is
what the record shows, dated to the day.
Section 02 · The Wind-Down
The Wind-Down, In Four Phases
Jan–Jun 2025
The flurry. Nearly all of his 584 filings land in this window — 300+ tickers, led by Berkshire Hathaway (9 filings, $212K–$530K combined), NVIDIA (12 filings, 7 buys), Tesla (10), Meta (9), Microsoft (8), Intel (8), Texas Instruments (7), Alibaba (7). Mostly $1,001–$15,000 bands, both directions.
Jun 24–25, 2025
The last stock buys. Coinbase (COIN) and Circle (CRCL), $1,001–$15,000 each, on June 24 — his final disclosed individual-stock purchases. A Zoom (ZM) sale follows on June 25.
Sep–Dec 2025
Index funds and exits. SPY, QQQ, and IWM purchases (Sep 15–16), further SPY entries (Nov 19); a same-day Berkshire Hathaway sale-and-repurchase recorded across two symbol formats (Nov 19); and one small Kellanova (K) sale, $1,001–$15,000 (Dec 11). No new individual-stock positions.
2026
Fixed income only. Four filings all year: a City of Philadelphia bond ($50,001–$100,000, Feb 3), a U.S. Treasury note ($1,001–$15,000, Feb 3), a Parkland, PA school district bond ($50,001–$100,000, Feb 20), and a Pennsylvania state bond ($50,001–$100,000, Mar 6). His last filing of any kind reached the Clerk on March 18, 2026.
Why this page exists: “did he actually stop?”
is a checkable question, and most coverage never checks back. The filings answer it: no disclosed
individual-stock purchases since June 24, 2025. If that changes, this page — and every Founders
alert — will say so the day the filing lands.
The Seats: Agriculture, Transportation & Infrastructure, Small Business
Bresnahan sits on the House Committee on Agriculture, the House Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure, and the House Committee on Small Business,
per GovGreed's committee-assignment database. During his active-trading months, his 300+-ticker
portfolio necessarily overlapped sectors those committees touch — food companies, logistics,
industrials. Committee jurisdiction is a standing fact about what a committee oversees, not evidence
that any specific trade was timed to committee business.
GovGreed does not make legal accusations. The record here is actually the opposite shape of most pages
in this series: heavy managed-style trading, national scrutiny, then a documented stop. Whether the stop
holds is now a matter of future filings — which GovGreed ingests daily. Not financial advice.
Sector Exposure
Bresnahan's 584 filings span 300+ tickers — one of the broadest freshman portfolios on record.
The chart below ranks sectors by trade count during his active months.
Strategic Profile
GovGreed's AI-composed strategic dossier maps Bresnahan's trading arc against his committee
assignments, donor industries, and bill activity.
Disclosure Gap Analysis
The STOCK Act requires trades to be disclosed within 45 days. Across all of Congress,
12,559 deduplicated disclosures (12.1%) were filed late; the median filing arrives in
28 days. Bresnahan's record is clean: zero late filings out of 584.
Bresnahan avg disclosure gap—
Congress-wide median28 days
Bresnahan trades filed late (>45 days)0 of 584
Longest single disclosure gap—
Frequently Asked Questions
How many stock trades has Rob Bresnahan made?▼
Representative Rob Bresnahan (R-PA8) has disclosed 584 deduplicated STOCK Act trades since taking office in January 2025 — 245 purchases and 339 sales across 300+ tickers, totaling $1.7M–$11.2M in disclosed bands. Nearly all of that activity landed in his first six months in office.
Did Rob Bresnahan stop trading stocks?▼
The filings say his individual-stock buying stopped in mid-2025. His last disclosed individual-stock purchases were Coinbase and Circle, $1,001–$15,000 each, on June 24, 2025 — followed by a Zoom sale on June 25. After that: index-ETF purchases (SPY, QQQ, IWM — September 2025; further SPY entries Nov 19), one Berkshire share-class sale/repurchase pair (Nov 19, 2025), one small Kellanova sale (Dec 11, 2025), and — in 2026 — only Pennsylvania municipal bonds and a U.S. Treasury note.
What did Rob Bresnahan buy in 2026?▼
Four fixed-income purchases and nothing else: a City of Philadelphia bond ($50,001–$100,000) and a U.S. Treasury note ($1,001–$15,000) on Feb 3; a Parkland, PA school district bond ($50,001–$100,000) on Feb 20; and a Pennsylvania state bond ($50,001–$100,000) on Mar 6. No individual stocks, no ETFs, no options.
What committees does Rob Bresnahan serve on?▼
The House Committee on Agriculture, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and the House Committee on Small Business, per GovGreed's committee-assignment database. Committee jurisdiction is a standing fact about what a committee oversees, not evidence of trade timing.
Has Rob Bresnahan violated the STOCK Act?▼
No late filings appear in his record: all 584 disclosures were filed inside the 45-day deadline. Across Congress at large, 12,559 deduplicated disclosures (12.1%) were filed late. See the full late-filings tracker.
What stocks did Bresnahan trade in his first year?▼
The largest by disclosed bands: Berkshire Hathaway (9 filings across two share-class symbols, $212K–$530K combined), SPY, NVIDIA (12 filings, 7 buys), Tesla (10), Meta (9), Microsoft (8), Intel (8), Texas Instruments (7), Alibaba (7), Alphabet (6), UnitedHealth (4). The breadth — 300+ names, mostly small bands, two-way flow — reads as managed-account activity.
How to track Rob Bresnahan's trades?▼
Track Bresnahan through GovGreed's free dashboard, which aggregates STOCK Act filings daily from the House Clerk. Founders members get an alert the moment any new Bresnahan disclosure hits — including if individual-stock activity ever resumes. The database covers 103,887 deduplicated trades from 353 politicians (2012–2026).
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About This Data:
Statistics sourced from STOCK Act disclosures via the House Clerk, Congress.gov, SEC EDGAR, FEC, and Senate LDA.
Database: 103,887 deduplicated trades, 353 politicians, 2012–2026.
Numbers verified against the live database on 2026-08-27. Updated daily.
Not financial advice. All data from public federal disclosures.
