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Susan A. Davis Democrat · CA-53

House of Representatives · former member · serving since 2001 · born April 13, 1944

Transactions 28 across 10 filings
Securities traded 16 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $266,028 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 0 none recorded

In plain language

Of 28 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.

Seat & district history

SeatCongressesServedChange
CA-53 108th–116th 2003–2021 district renumbered from 49
CA-49 107th 2001–2003 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

No current committee assignments on file (former member).

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
116thHouse Committee on Armed Services Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thHouse Committee on Education and Workforce Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thHouse Committee on House Administration Member 2019-02 → 2020-12
115thHouse Committee on Armed Services Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thHouse Committee on Education and Workforce Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
114thHouse Committee on Armed Services Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thHouse Committee on Education and Workforce Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
113thHouse Committee on Armed Services Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
113thHouse Committee on Education and Workforce Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
112thHouse Committee on Armed Services Member 2012-11 → 2012-11
112thHouse Committee on Education and Workforce 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

16 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
FTNT Fortinet, Inc. - Common Stock (FTNT) Technology Hardware 3 2 / 1 $73,002 2020-02 → 2020-10
VSAT ViaSat, Inc. - Common Stock (VSAT) Telecommunications 3 3 / 0 $48,502 2020-02 → 2020-10
CSIQ Canadian Solar Inc. - common shares (CS… 1 1 / 0 $32,501 2020-10 → 2020-10
F Ford Motor Company Common Stock (F) Automotive 1 1 / 0 $32,501 2020-10 → 2020-10
LEVI levi Strauss & Co Class A (lEVI) 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2020-03 → 2020-09
LUV Southwest Airlines Company Common Stock… Transportation 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2020-09 → 2020-09
FB Meta Platforms, Inc. - Class A (FB) 2 2 / 0 $23,002 2019-01 → 2020-03
BIDU Baidu, Inc. - American Depositary Share… Software & IT Services 2 2 / 0 $40,501 2020-02 → 2020-03
EXC Exelon Corporation (EXC) Utilities 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2020-03 → 2020-03
RCL Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Common Sto… Transportation 2 0 / 2 $16,001 2019-10 → 2020-02
ALK Alaska Air Group, Inc. Common Stock (AL… Transportation 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2020-02 → 2020-02
VWDRY Vestas Wind Systems AS American Deposit… 1 1 / 0 $32,501 2020-02 → 2020-02
CHL China Mobile Limited (CHL) 2 1 / 1 $30,002 2019-03 → 2019-10
EA Electronic Arts Inc. - Common Stock (EA) Software & IT Services 2 1 / 1 $40,501 2019-01 → 2019-03
SNH Senior Housing Properties Trust - Commo… 1 1 / 0 $32,501 2019-03 → 2019-03
ILMN Illumina, Inc. - Common Stock (ILMN) Medical Devices 1 1 / 0 $32,501 2019-01 → 2019-01

The Spread by year

YearSpreadTrades pricedDisclosed value
2020 +5.2% 13 $282,507
2019 +2.5% 4 $81,002

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
2020-10-28 VSAT ViaSat, Inc. (VSAT) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2020-10-28 FTNT Fortinet, Inc. (FTNT) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2020-10-28 F Ford Motor Company (F) buy $15,001 – $50,000 spouse
2020-10-28 CSIQ Canadian Solar Inc. - common shares (CSIQ) buy $15,001 – $50,000 spouse
2020-09-29 LUV Southwest Airlines Company (luV) sell $15,001 – $50,000 joint
2020-09-29 LEVI levi Strauss & Co Class A (lEVI) sell $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2020-04-15 VSAT ViaSat, Inc. (VSAT) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2020-03-16 LEVI levi Strauss & Co Class A (lEVI) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-03-16 FTNT Fortinet, Inc. (FTNT) buy $15,001 – $50,000 spouse
2020-03-16 FB Facebook, Inc. - Class A (FB) buy $15,001+ self
2020-03-16 EXC Exelon Corporation (EXC) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2020-03-16 BIDU Baidu, Inc. - American Depositary Shares, each representing one tenth Class A ordinary share (BIDu) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2020-02-11 VSAT ViaSat, Inc. (VSAT) buy $15,001 – $50,000 spouse
2020-02-11 VWDRY Vestas Wind Systems AS American Depositary Shares (VWDRY) buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-02-11 RCL Royal Caribbean Cruises ltd. (RCl) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-02-11 FTNT Fortinet, Inc. (FTNT) sell $15,001 – $50,000 spouse
2020-02-11 BIDU Baidu, Inc. - American Depositary Shares, each representing one tenth Class A ordinary share (BIDu) buy $15,001 – $50,000 spouse
2020-02-11 ALK Alaska Air group, Inc. (AlK) sell $15,001 – $50,000 spouse
2019-10-31 RCL Royal Caribbean Cruises ltd. (RCl) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-10-31 CHL China Mobile limited (CHl) sell $15,001+ spouse
2019-07-05 Charles Schwab Corporation sell $15,001+ spouse
2019-06-06 Senior Housing Properties Trust - sell $15,001+ spouse
2019-03-08 SNH Senior Housing Properties Trust - Common Shares of Beneficial Interest (SNH) buy $15,001 – $50,000 spouse
2019-03-08 EA Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) sell $15,001 – $50,000 spouse
2019-03-08 CHL China Mobile limited (CHl) buy $15,001+ spouse
2019-01-11 ILMN Illumina, Inc. (IlMN) buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2019-01-11 FB Facebook, Inc. - Class A (FB) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-01-11 EA Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse