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Brian Babin Republican · TX-36

House of Representatives · in office · serving since 2015 · born March 23, 1948

Transactions 16 across 2 filings
Securities traded 13 12 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $107,016 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 0 none recorded

In plain language

Of 16 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.

Campaign money 1996 cycle

Raised $594,791
From individuals $0
From PACs $67,070
Cash on hand $379

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
TX-36 114th–119th 2015–2027 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)

CommitteePositionRankSideJurisdiction
House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Chair 1 majority
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Member 6 majority

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thHouse Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thHouse Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
117thHouse Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
117thHouse Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
116thHouse Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thHouse Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
115thHouse Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thHouse Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
114thHouse Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thHouse Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Member 2015-02 → 2016-12

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

12 securities
TickerSecuritySectorTrades (period) Buys / SellsPeriod valueLast trade
WDS Woodside Energy Group Limited American … 1 1 / 1 $8,001 2026-05-05
FIP FTAI Infrastructure Inc. - Common Stock… 1 1 / 1 $8,001 2026-05-05
CODI D/B/A Compass Diversified Holdings Shar… 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2026-05-05
ENB Enbridge Inc Common Stock (ENB) Oil & Gas 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2026-05-05
ET Energy Transfer LP Common Units (ET) Utilities 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2026-05-05
FTAI FTAI Aviation Ltd. - Common Stock (FTAI) 1 0 / 1 $75,001 2026-05-05
HII Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. Com… 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2026-05-05
IAG Iamgold Corporation Ordinary Shares (IA… 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2026-05-05
RRC Range Resources Corporation Common Stoc… Oil & Gas 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2026-05-05
SOUHY SOUTH32 LTD SPNS/ADR (SOUHY) 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2026-05-05
WTSHF WESTSHORE TERM INVST CP (WTSHF) 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2026-05-05
WPM Wheaton Precious Metals Corp Common Sha… Mining & Metals 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2026-05-05

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.

Previously traded

1 securities

Securities with disclosed transactions before this window and none since. A security leaving this list means no reported trading — not that a position was closed. Holdings themselves are not disclosed in these filings.

TickerSecuritySectorTrades Buys / SellsTotal valueActive
BHP BHP Group Limited American Depositary S… Mining & Metals 2 2 / 0 $40,501 2022-03 → 2022-06

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2026-05-05 WDS Woodside Energy Group Limited American Depositary Shares, each representing one Ordinary Share (WDS) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2026-05-05 WPM Wheaton Precious Metals Corp Common Shares (WPM) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2026-05-05 WTSHF WESTSHORE TERM INVST CP (WTSHF) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2026-05-05 SOUHY SOUTH32 LTD SPNS/ADR (SOUHY) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2026-05-05 RRC Range Resources Corporation Common Stock (RRC) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2026-05-05 IAG Iamgold Corporation Ordinary Shares (IAG) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2026-05-05 HII Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. Common Stock (HII) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2026-05-05 FIP FTAI Infrastructure Inc. - Common Stock (FIP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2026-05-05 FTAI FTAI Aviation Ltd. - Common Stock (FTAI) sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2026-05-05 ET Energy Transfer LP Common Units (ET) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2026-05-05 ENB Enbridge Inc Common Stock (ENB) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2026-05-05 CODI D/B/A Compass Diversified Holdings Shares of Beneficial Interest (CODI) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2022-08-02 FIP FTAI Infrastructure Inc. (FIP) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2022-06-27 BHP BHP Group Limited American Depositary Shares (BHP) buy $15,001 – $50,000 joint
2022-06-02 WDS Woodside Energy Group Limited American Depositary Shares, each representing one Ordinary Share (WDS) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2022-03-29 BHP BHP Group Limited American Depositary Shares (BHP) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self