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Lindsey Graham Republican · SC

Senate · former member · serving since 1995 · born July 9, 1955

Transactions 14 across 6 filings
Securities traded 9 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $471,014 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 0 none recorded

In plain language

Of 14 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, SC 108th–117th 2003–2026 moved to the Senate
SC-3 104th–107th 1995–2003 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

Current (119th Congress)

CommitteePositionRankSideJurisdiction
Senate Committee on Appropriations Member 4 majority
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Member 5 majority
Senate Committee on the Budget Chairman 1 majority
Senate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2 majority

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thSenate Committee on Appropriations Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Environment and Public Works Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on the Budget Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
117thSenate Committee on Appropriations Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Environment and Public Works Member 2021-02 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Foreign Relations Member 2021-01 → 2021-01
117thSenate Committee on the Budget Ranking Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
116thSenate Committee on Appropriations Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2019-01 → 2019-01
116thSenate Committee on Foreign Relations Member 2019-02 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on the Budget Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman 2019-01 → 2020-12
115thSenate Committee on Appropriations Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on the Budget Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
114thSenate Committee on Appropriations Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on the Budget Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
113thSenate Committee on Appropriations Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
113thSenate Committee on Armed Services 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
113thSenate Special Committee on Aging Member 2013-01 → 2013-01
112thSenate Committee on Appropriations Member 2012-11 → 2012-11
112thSenate Committee on Armed Services 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
112thSenate Special Committee on Aging 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

9 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
VWUAX Vanguard U.S. Growth Fund Admiral Shares 1 1 / 0 $175,001 2025-11 → 2025-11
VWUSX Vanguard U.S. Growth Fund 1 0 / 1 $175,001 2025-11 → 2025-11
XONE Boxx One Year Target Duration ETF 1 1 / 0 $32,501 2025-06 → 2025-06
BSCV Invesco BulletShares 2031 Corporate Bon… 1 1 / 0 $32,501 2025-06 → 2025-06
VIG Vanguard Div Appreciation ETF 2 0 / 2 $65,001 2023-12 → 2024-01
USFR Wisdomtree Floating Rate Treasury Fund 2 2 / 0 $65,001 2023-12 → 2024-01
VTIP Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected… 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2022-06 → 2022-06
IBDO iShares iBonds Dec 2023 Term Corporate … 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2022-06 → 2022-06
IBDQ iShares iBonds Dec 2025 Term Corporate … 1 1 / 0 $32,501 2022-06 → 2022-06

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2025-11-06 VWUSX Vanguard U.S. Growth Fund sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2025-11-06 VWUAX Vanguard U.S. Growth Fund Admiral Shares buy $100,001 – $250,000 self
2025-09-30 US Treasury Bill26U S T Bill Due 1/1/26 buy $50,001 – $100,000 self
2025-07-03 US Treasury Bill (912797NX1) MATURED sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2025-06-30 US Treasury Bill 25U DUE 10/16/25 buy $50,001 – $100,000 self
2025-06-30 BSCV Invesco BulletShares 2031 Corporate Bond ETF buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2025-06-30 XONE Boxx One Year Target Duration ETF buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2024-01-26 USFR Wisdomtree Floating Rate Treasury Fund buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2024-01-26 VIG Vanguard Div Appreciation ETF sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2023-12-28 USFR Wisdomtree Floating Rate Treasury Fund buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2023-12-28 VIG Vanguard Div Appreciation ETF sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2022-06-30 IBDQ iShares iBonds Dec 2025 Term Corporate ETF buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2022-06-30 IBDO iShares iBonds Dec 2023 Term Corporate ETF buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2022-06-30 VTIP Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities sell $15,001 – $50,000 self