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James A. Himes Democrat · CT-4

House of Representatives · in office · serving since 2009 · born July 5, 1966

Transactions 4 across 2 filings
Securities traded 3 3 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $81,004 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 2 examine

In plain language

Of 4 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
CT-4 111th–119th 2009–2027 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
House Committee on Financial Services Member 8 minority
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Ranking Member 1 minority

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thHouse Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Ranking Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
117thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
117thHouse Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Member 2021-07 → 2022-11
116thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thHouse Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
115thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thHouse Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
114thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thHouse Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
113thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
113thHouse Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Member 2013-03 → 2014-11
112thHouse Committee on Financial Services 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

3 securities
TickerSecuritySectorTrades (period) Buys / SellsPeriod valueLast trade
BAC Bank of America Corp Banking 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2026-07-20
XOM Exxon Mobil Corp Oil & Gas 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2026-07-20
HD Home Depot, Inc. (HD) Retail & Consumer 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2026-07-20

Values are the sum of filed range midpoints, not exact amounts — Congress discloses brackets. Because a transaction may be reported up to 45 days after it happens, this window reflects what has been disclosed, not necessarily everything already traded.

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2026-07-20 HD Home Depot, Inc. (HD) sell $15,001 – $50,000 joint
2026-07-20 XOM ExxonMobil Holdings Corporation Common Stock (XOM) sell $15,001 – $50,000 joint
2026-07-20 BAC Bank of America Corporation Common Stock (BAC) sell $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2023-02-22 Fidelity 2022 Private Equity Multi Strategy buy $50,001 – $100,000 joint