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Christopher A. Coons Democrat · DE

Senate · in office · serving since 2010 · born September 9, 1963

Transactions 27 across 10 filings
Securities traded 3 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $2,063,027 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 8 examine

In plain language

Of 27 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 $6,669,194
From individuals $3,414,652
From PACs $2,148,777
Cash on hand $4,705,684

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
Senator, DE 111th–117th 2010–2027 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
Senate Committee on Appropriations Member 6 minority
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Member 2 minority
Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 5 minority
Senate Committee on the Judiciary Member 4 minority
Senate Select Committee on Ethics Vice Chairman 1 minority

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thSenate Committee on Appropriations Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Foreign Relations Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Select Committee on Ethics Chairman 2023-02 → 2024-11
117thSenate Committee on Appropriations Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Foreign Relations Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Select Committee on Ethics Chairman 2021-01 → 2022-11
116thSenate Committee on Appropriations Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on Foreign Relations Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Select Committee on Ethics Vice Chairman 2019-01 → 2020-12
115thSenate Committee on Appropriations Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Foreign Relations Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Select Committee on Ethics Vice Chairman 2017-01 → 2018-12
114thSenate Committee on Appropriations Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on Foreign Relations Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Select Committee on Ethics Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
113thSenate Committee on Appropriations Member 2013-06 → 2014-11
113thSenate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Member 2013-01 → 2013-06
113thSenate Committee on Foreign Relations Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
113thSenate Committee on the Budget Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
113thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
112thSenate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Member 2012-11 → 2012-11
112thSenate Committee on Foreign Relations Member 2012-11 → 2012-11
112thSenate Committee on the Budget Member 2012-11 → 2012-11
112thSenate Committee on the Judiciary 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

3 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
MSFT Microsoft Corporation - Common Stock (M… Software & IT Services 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2019-05 → 2019-05
AAPL Apple Inc. - Common Stock (AAPL) Technology Hardware 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2018-10 → 2018-11
NFLX Netflix, Inc. - Common Stock (NFLX) Media & Entertainment 4 1 / 3 $32,002 2018-03 → 2018-10

The Spread by year

YearSpreadTrades pricedDisclosed value
2018 -2.8% 6 $48,003

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

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2024-02-06 W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2024-02-06 W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2023-02-03 W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2023-01-31 W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2022-05-03 W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $250,001 – $500,000 self
2021-11-09 W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $1,001 – $15,000 child
2021-11-09 W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $1,001 – $15,000 child
2021-11-09 W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $1,001 – $15,000 child
2021-08-04 W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $500,001 – $1,000,000 spouse
2021-07-29 W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $250,001 – $500,000 self
2021-03-01 W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $250,001 – $500,000 self
2020-07-31 W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $50,001 – $100,000 child
2020-07-31 W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $50,001 – $100,000 child
2020-07-31 W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $50,001 – $100,000 child
2019-06-19 W.L. Gore Company: W.L. Gore & Associates ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2019-05-28 MSFT Microsoft Corporation sell $1,001 – $15,000 child
2019-03-06 W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $1,001 – $15,000 child
2019-03-06 W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $1,001 – $15,000 child
2019-03-06 W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $1,001 – $15,000 child
2018-12-27 W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse
2018-12-27 W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ?(Newark, DE) Description:?Advanced materials manufacturing sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse
2018-11-05 AAPL Apple Inc. sell $1,001 – $15,000 child
2018-10-24 AAPL Apple Inc. buy $1,001 – $15,000 child
2018-10-24 NFLX Netflix, Inc. sell $1,001 – $15,000 child
2018-08-23 NFLX Netflix, Inc. buy $1,001 – $15,000 child
2018-07-18 NFLX Netflix, Inc. sell $1,001 – $15,000 child
2018-03-19 NFLX Netflix, Inc. sell $1,001 – $15,000 child