Mark Alford Republican · MO-4
House of Representatives · in office · serving since 2023 · born October 4, 1963
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In plain language
Of 9 disclosed trades, 0 were flagged by the site's published rules.
Too few disclosed trades here to say anything about a pattern. A handful of trades will throw up the odd coincidence for anyone.
Across the whole database, congressional trading beats the market by close to nothing on average, and only slightly more trades look unusual than chance alone would produce. Most members, most of the time, are unremarkable. That is the backdrop for anything you read here. A flag is a prompt to look at the record, never a finding about a person.
Seat & district history
| Seat | Congresses | Served | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| MO-4 | 118th–119th | 2023–2027 | first seat |
District numbers change when a state is redistricted, so a renumbering here is not necessarily a move — the boundaries were redrawn around the member. Term records come from the public congress-legislators dataset.
Committees
Current (119th Congress)
| Committee | Position | Rank | Side | Jurisdiction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| House Committee on Appropriations | Member | 30 | majority | record |
| House Committee on Small Business | Member | 6 | majority | record |
Earlier Congresses
| Congress | Committee | Position | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 118th | House Committee on Agriculture | Member | 2023-02 → 2024-11 |
| 118th | House Committee on Armed Services | Member | 2023-02 → 2024-11 |
| 118th | House Committee on Small Business | Member | 2023-02 → 2024-11 |
The published roster covers only the sitting Congress, so earlier assignments are reconstructed from the dated version history of that same public dataset, sampled monthly back to 2012. Observed is the span across which we actually saw the seat held — it is evidence of tenure, not a precise start and end date, and a seat that changed hands between two monthly samples may be dated up to a month out. Committees with no history recorded are absent because no snapshot showed them, which is not evidence the member held no seat.
Currently trading — last 6 months
| Ticker | Security | Sector | Trades (period) | Buys / Sells | Period value | Last trade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMZN | Amazon.com, Inc. - Common Stock (AMZN) | Retail & Consumer | 1 | 0 / 1 | $8,001 | 2026-03-16 |
| AAPL | Apple Inc. - Common Stock (AAPL) | Technology Hardware | 1 | 0 / 1 | $8,001 | 2026-03-16 |
| T | AT&T Inc. (T) | Telecommunications | 1 | 0 / 1 | $8,001 | 2026-03-16 |
| BRK.B | Berkshire Hathaway Inc. New Common Stoc… | — | 1 | 0 / 1 | $8,001 | 2026-03-16 |
| PYPL | Paypal Holdings | Business Services | 1 | 0 / 1 | $8,001 | 2026-03-16 |
| SPYB | DR S&P 500 Buyback ETF (SPYB) | — | 2 | 0 / 2 | $16,001 | 2026-03-16 |
Values are the sum of filed range midpoints, not exact amounts — Congress discloses brackets. Because a transaction may be reported up to 45 days after it happens, this window reflects what has been disclosed, not necessarily everything already traded.
The Spread by year
| Year | Spread | Trades priced | Disclosed value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | +0.7% | 5 | $40,003 |
Transaction timing versus the market over 90 trading days — not portfolio return, which these filings cannot support. See Methodology and the Scoreboard for the population baseline.
All transactions
| Date | Ticker | Asset | Action | Amount (as filed) | Owner | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-16 | SPYB | DR S&P 500 Buyback ETF (SPYB) | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | spouse | record |
| 2026-03-16 | SPYB | DR S&P 500 Buyback ETF (SPYB) | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | spouse | record |
| 2026-03-16 | PYPL | PayPal Holdings, Inc. - Common Stock (PYPL) | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2026-03-16 | — | Invesco QQQ | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2026-03-16 | — | DIA - State Street SPDR Dow Jones | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2026-03-16 | BRK.B | Berkshire Hathaway Inc. New Common Stock (BRK.B) | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2026-03-16 | T | AT&T Inc. (T) | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2026-03-16 | AAPL | Apple Inc. - Common Stock (AAPL) | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2026-03-16 | AMZN | Amazon.com, Inc. - Common Stock (AMZN) | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |