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Vern Buchanan Republican · FL-16

House of Representatives · in office · serving since 2007 · born May 8, 1951

Transactions 67 across 18 filings
Securities traded 0 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $5,005,067 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 0 none recorded

In plain language

Of 67 disclosed trades, 0 were flagged by the site's published rules.

None of these trades met the flagging rules. That is the ordinary result — most trades, by most members, are unremarkable.

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.

Campaign money 2026 cycle

Raised $929,859
From individuals $293,813
From PACs $589,010
Cash on hand $995,723

Campaign finance from the FEC, shown as context beside the trading record. We do not draw a line from any donor to any trade: the FEC's donor data cannot support that honestly, and inventing the link would be the kind of unsourced inference this site refuses. Read the two together and judge for yourself.

Seat & district history

SeatCongressesServedChange
FL-16 113th–119th 2013–2027 district renumbered from 13
FL-13 110th–112th 2007–2013 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)

CommitteePositionRankSideJurisdiction
House Committee on Ways and Means Member 2 majority
Joint Committee on Taxation Member 2 majority

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thHouse Committee on Ways and Means Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thJoint Committee on Taxation Member 2023-05 → 2024-11
117thHouse Committee on Ways and Means Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
116thHouse Committee on Ways and Means Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
115thHouse Committee on Ways and Means Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
114thHouse Committee on the Budget Member 2015-07 → 2015-07
114thHouse Committee on Ways and Means Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
113thHouse Committee on Ways and Means Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
112thHouse Committee on Ways and Means Member 2012-11 → 2012-11

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

0 securities

No transactions disclosed in the last 6 months.

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2022-02-15 PARKLANd SCHOOL dISTRI 4% sell $50,001+ self
2022-02-15 MET gOVT NASHVILLE $ 5% sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2022-02-15 LAREdO TX WTRWKS SWR 5% sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2022-02-15 INdIANAPOLIS IN LOCA 5% sell $50,001+ self
2022-02-15 BALTIMORE Md PROJ RE 5% sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2022-02-14 WHEAT RIdgE CO 4% sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2022-02-14 WASHINgTON ST 4% sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2022-02-14 WASHINgTON dC MET AREA 5% sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2022-02-14 TOBACCO SETTLEMENT F 5% sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2022-02-14 TEXAS ST TRANSPRTN C 5% sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2022-02-14 SAINT PETERSBURg FL 4% sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2022-02-14 PRIV CLgS & UNIVS AU 5% sell $100,001+ self
2022-02-14 PALM BEACH CNTY FL S 5% FILINg STATUS: New sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2022-02-14 OHIO ST MAJOR NEW STAT 5% sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2022-02-14 NEW YORK NY 5% sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2022-02-14 NEW YORK CITY NY TRA 5% sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2022-02-14 KINg CNTY WA SWR REV 5% gfedc sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2022-02-14 HOUSTON TX UTILITY SYS 5% sell $50,001+ self
2022-02-14 COLORAdO ST HLTH FAC 5% 01/01/24 sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2021-12-20 Met govt Nashville 5% buy $50,001 – $100,000 self
2021-07-31 Dist Columbia Income Tax R 5% 12/01/23 sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2021-04-23 Parkland School Dist 4% buy $50,001 – $100,000 self
2021-04-19 Black Belt Energy gA 4% 7/1/46 fedcg sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2021-03-24 New York NY 5% 4/1/30 fedgc buy $50,001 – $100,000 self
2021-03-17 Ohio St Major New Stat 5% buy $50,001 – $100,000 self
2021-03-16 Palm Beach Cnty FL Hlt 5% 11/15/22 sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2021-01-14 Oregon St Hlth & Sci 6% 7/1/20 buy $15,001+ self
2020-12-11 New York City NY Tra 5% 11/01/29 buy $50,001 – $100,000 self
2020-12-08 Clay Cnty MO Public 3% 3/1/22 cgfed sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2020-07-30 King Co WA Swr Rev 5% 1/1/2030 buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-07-30 Houston TX Utility Sys 5% buy $50,001 – $100,000 self
2020-06-30 Wahington St 4% 7/1/2028 buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-04-27 Saint Petersburg FL 4% 10/01/29 buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-04-17 City of Ketchum ID 5% 09/15/29 dgcfe buy $50,001 – $100,000 self
2020-04-10 Laredo TX Wtrwrks SWR 5% 03/01/29 buy $50,001 – $100,000 self
2020-02-27 Indianapolis IN Loca 5% 02/01/26 sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2020-02-27 Chicago IL Met Wtr R 5% 12/01/23 dbefgc sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2020-01-07 Wise Cnty Va INdL dE 2.15% 10/01/40 sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2020-01-07 Rockdale County develo 5% 7/1/26 sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2020-01-07 Pittsburgh Ca Success 5% 9/1/22 sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2020-01-07 oklahoma ST Turnpike 5% 1/1/29 sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2020-01-07 oklahoma dev Fin auth 5% 12/01/25 sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2020-01-07 New Jersey ST Transp 5% 06/15/22 sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2020-01-07 N TX Tollway auth RE 5% 01/01/25 cdefgb sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2020-01-07 Monroe Cnty NY INdL 5% sell $100,001+ self
2020-01-07 Met Transprtn auth N 5% 11/15/25 sell $100,001+ self
2020-01-07 Hawaii ST 5% 10/01/24 sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2020-01-07 ClarkCnty NV Sch di 5% 06/15/21 fedcbg sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2020-01-07 Citizens Property Insu 5% 6/1/21 bcdefg sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2019-11-19 UNIV Missippii MS 5% 10/01/24 buy $100,001 – $250,000 self
2019-11-19 Rockdale County Develop 5% 7/1/26 buy $100,001 – $250,000 self
2019-11-19 Colorado ST Hlth Fac 5% 01/01/24 buy $100,001+ self
2019-11-18 Vermont St Eductnl 4% 12/1/19 sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2019-11-18 Massachusetts ST Sch 5% 2/15/26 sell $100,001+ self
2019-09-27 Priv CLgS & Univs aU 5% buy $100,001+ self
2019-06-26 Pennsylvania ST Turn 5% 12/01/20 sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2019-06-26 Clay Cnty Mo Public 3% 3/01/22 buy $100,001 – $250,000 self
2019-06-26 Baltimore MD Proj RE 5% 7/01/26 buy $100,001+ self
2019-04-24 INDIaNaPoLIS IN LoCa 5.0% buy $100,001+ self
2019-03-27 Triborough NY Bridge 5% 11/15/25 sell $100,001+ self
2019-02-18 Washington St 5% 08/01/26 sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2019-02-18 San Luis obispo Cnty 5% 9/01/22 sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2019-02-18 Lamar TX Consol Inde 5% 2/15/22 sell $100,001+ self
2019-02-18 Keller TX Indep Sch 5% 08/15/21 sell $100,001+ self
2019-02-14 Wheat Ridge Co 4% 12/01/25 buy $100,001 – $250,000 self
2019-01-31 Texas St Wtr Dev Brd 5.0% sell $100,001+ self
2019-01-15 Washington St 5.0% 08/01/26 buy $100,001 – $250,000 self