THE REFS BET
The refs bet. We keep score.

Maria Cantwell Democrat · WA

Senate · in office · serving since 1993 · born October 13, 1958

Transactions 1 across 1 filings
Securities traded 1 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $15,001 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 0 none recorded

In plain language

Of 1 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

SeatCongressesServedChange
Senator, WA 107th–119th 2001–2031 moved to the Senate
WA-1 103rd 1993–1995 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
Joint Committee on Taxation Member 2 minority
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Ranking Member 1 minority
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Member 3 minority
Senate Committee on Finance Member 2 minority
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Member 2 minority
Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2 minority

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thJoint Committee on Taxation Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chairman 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Finance Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Indian Affairs Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
117thJoint Committee on Taxation Member 2021-07 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chairman 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Finance Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Indian Affairs Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
116thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Ranking Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on Finance Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on Indian Affairs Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
115thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Ranking Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Finance Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Indian Affairs Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
114thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Ranking Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on Finance Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on Indian Affairs Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
113thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
113thSenate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
113thSenate Committee on Finance Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
113thSenate Committee on Indian Affairs Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
113thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chairman 2013-01 → 2014-11
112thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Member 2012-11 → 2012-11
112thSenate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Member 2012-11 → 2012-11
112thSenate Committee on Finance Member 2012-11 → 2012-11
112thSenate Committee on Indian Affairs Member 2012-11 → 2012-11
112thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship 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.

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
RNWK RealNetworks, Inc. - Common Stock 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2022-12 → 2022-12

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2022-12-28 RNWK RealNetworks, Inc. - Common Stock sell $15,001 – $50,000 self