Ron Estes Republican · KS-4
House of Representatives · in office · serving since 2017 · born July 19, 1956
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In plain language
Of 17 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
| Seat | Congresses | Served | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| KS-4 | 115th–119th | 2017–2027 | 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)
| Committee | Position | Rank | Side | Jurisdiction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| House Committee on the Budget | Member | 12 | majority | record |
| House Committee on Ways and Means | Member | 8 | majority | record |
| Joint Economic Committee | Member | 3 | majority | record |
Earlier Congresses
| Congress | Committee | Position | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 118th | House Committee on Education and Workforce | Member | 2023-02 → 2024-11 |
| 118th | House Committee on the Budget | Member | 2023-02 → 2024-11 |
| 118th | House Committee on Ways and Means | Member | 2023-02 → 2024-11 |
| 118th | Joint Economic Committee | Member | 2023-05 → 2024-11 |
| 117th | House Committee on Ways and Means | Member | 2021-03 → 2022-11 |
| 117th | Joint Economic Committee | Member | 2021-07 → 2022-11 |
| 116th | House Committee on Education and Workforce | Member | 2019-01 → 2019-01 |
| 116th | House Committee on Homeland Security | Member | 2019-01 → 2019-01 |
| 116th | House Committee on Ways and Means | Member | 2019-02 → 2020-12 |
| 115th | House Committee on Education and Workforce | Member | 2017-09 → 2018-12 |
| 115th | House Committee on Homeland Security | Member | 2017-09 → 2018-12 |
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
No transactions disclosed in the last 6 months.
Previously traded
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.
| Ticker | Security | Sector | Trades | Buys / Sells | Total value | Active |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MRVL | Marvell Technology Inc | Semiconductors | 2 | 1 / 1 | $16,001 | 2022-02 → 2022-09 |
| CVX | Chevron Corporation Common Stock (CVX) | Oil & Gas | 2 | 1 / 1 | $16,001 | 2022-02 → 2022-07 |
| VZ | Verizon Communications Inc. Common Stoc… | Telecommunications | 2 | 1 / 1 | $16,001 | 2022-02 → 2022-07 |
| WFC | Wells Fargo & Company Common Stock (WFC) | Banking | 2 | 1 / 1 | $16,001 | 2022-02 → 2022-07 |
| SPR | irit Aerosystems Holdings, Inc. (SPR) | — | 2 | 1 / 1 | $16,001 | 2022-03 → 2022-07 |
| HON | Honeywell International Inc. (HON) | Defense & Aerospace | 2 | 1 / 1 | $65,001 | 2022-03 → 2022-05 |
The Spread by year
| Year | Spread | Trades priced | Disclosed value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | +0.2% | 10 | $129,005 |
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
| Date | Ticker | Asset | Action | Amount (as filed) | Owner | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-17 | — | US Treasury Savings Bond | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2023-04-17 | — | US Treasury Savings Bond | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2023-04-17 | — | US Treasury Savings Bond | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2022-09-27 | MRVL | Marvell Technology, Inc. (MRVL) | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2022-08-01 | — | US Treasury Savings Bond | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2022-07-19 | CVX | Chevron Corporation (CVX) | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2022-07-12 | VZ | Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2022-07-05 | WFC | Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2022-07-05 | SPR | irit Aerosystems Holdings, Inc. (SPR) | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2022-06-17 | — | US Treasury Savings Bond | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2022-05-31 | HON | Honeywell International Inc. (HON) | sell | $15,001 – $50,000 | joint | record |
| 2022-03-04 | SPR | irit Aerosystems Holdings, Inc. (SPR) | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2022-03-04 | HON | Honeywell International Inc. (HON) | buy | $15,001 – $50,000 | self | record |
| 2022-02-16 | WFC | Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2022-02-16 | VZ | Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2022-02-10 | MRVL | Marvell Technology, Inc. (MRVl) | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2022-02-10 | CVX | Chevron Corporation (CVX) | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |