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Ted Cruz Republican · TX

Senate · in office · serving since 2013 · born December 22, 1970

Transactions 5 across 5 filings
Securities traded 3 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $416,005 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 0 none recorded

In plain language

Of 5 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 2012 cycle

Raised $15,098,279
From individuals $9,700,522
From PACs $1,399,665
Cash on hand $479,413

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, TX 113th–119th 2013–2031 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 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chairman 1 majority
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Member 9 majority
Senate Committee on Rules and Administration Member 2 majority
Senate Committee on the Judiciary Member 4 majority

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Ranking Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Foreign Relations Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Rules and Administration Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
117thJoint Economic Committee Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Foreign Relations Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Rules and Administration Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
116thJoint Economic Committee Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2019-01 → 2019-01
116thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on Foreign Relations Member 2019-02 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on Rules and Administration Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
115thJoint Economic Committee Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Rules and Administration Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
114thJoint Economic Committee Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on Rules and Administration Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
113thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2013-02 → 2014-11
113thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Member 2013-02 → 2014-11
113thSenate Committee on Rules and Administration Member 2013-02 → 2014-11
113thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2013-02 → 2014-11
113thSenate Special Committee on Aging Member 2013-02 → 2014-11

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
GS Goldman Sachs Group Capital Markets 3 0 / 3 $625,002 2019-05 → 2025-11
BTC Bitcoin (BTC) Capital Markets 1 1 / 0 $32,501 2022-01 → 2022-01
PAGP Plains GP Holdings, L.P. - Class A Shar… Oil & Gas 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2019-11 → 2019-11

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2025-11-11 GS Goldman Sachs Group sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse
2024-04-15 GS Goldman Sachs Group sell $250,001 – $500,000 spouse
2022-01-25 BTC Bitcoin Exchange/Platform: River buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2019-11-27 PAGP Plains GP Holdings, L.P. sell $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2019-05-15 GS The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. sell $50,001 – $100,000 joint