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Darrell Issa Republican · CA-48

House of Representatives · in office · serving since 2001 · born November 1, 1953

Transactions 20 across 3 filings
Securities traded 0 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $96,000,020 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 0 none recorded

In plain language

Of 20 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-48 118th–119th 2023–2027 district renumbered from 50
CA-50 117th 2021–2023 district renumbered from 49
CA-49 108th–115th 2003–2019 district renumbered from 48
CA-48 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

Current (119th Congress)

CommitteePositionRankSideJurisdiction
House Committee on Foreign Affairs Member 6 majority
House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Member 7 majority
House Committee on the Judiciary Member 2 majority

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thHouse Committee on Foreign Affairs Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thHouse Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thHouse Committee on the Judiciary Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
117thHouse Committee on Foreign Affairs Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
117thHouse Committee on the Judiciary Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
115thHouse Committee on Foreign Affairs Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thHouse Committee on the Judiciary Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
114thHouse Committee on Foreign Affairs Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thHouse Committee on the Judiciary Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
113thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chair 2013-01 → 2014-11
113thHouse Committee on the Judiciary Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
112thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chair 2012-11 → 2012-11
112thHouse Committee on the Judiciary 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.

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2025-04-10 Interest Rate Cap Transaction UBS sell $25,000,001 – $50,000,000 self
2024-08-05 United States Treasury Bills CUSIP 912797KB2 due 8/15/24 sell $5,000,001 – $25,000,000 self
2024-06-05 United States Treasury Bills CUSIP 912797KE6 due 6/11/24 sell $1,000,001 – $5,000,000 self
2024-05-20 United States Treasury Bills CUSIP 912797JZ1 due 6/4/24 sell $1,000,001 – $5,000,000 self
2024-03-14 United States Treasury Bills CUSIP 912797HF7 due 4/11/24 sell $5,000,001 – $25,000,000 self
2024-03-14 United States Treasury Bills CUSIP 912797GZ4 due 4/4/24 sell $5,000,001 – $25,000,000 self
2024-03-06 United States Treasury Bills CUSSIP 912797GX9 due 3/14/24 sell $5,000,001 – $25,000,000 self
2024-03-06 United States Treasury Bills CUSIP 912797GZ4 due 4/4/24 sell $1,000,001 – $5,000,000 self
2024-03-06 United States Treasury Bills CUSIP 912797GY7 due 3/28/24 sell $5,000,001 – $25,000,000 self
2024-02-27 United States Treasury Bills CUSIP 912797GP6 due 2/29/24 sell $1,000,001 – $5,000,000 self
2024-02-13 United States Treasury Bills CUSIP 912797GN1 due 2/15/24 sell $5,000,001 – $25,000,000 self
2024-02-05 United States Treasury Bills CUSIP 912797GM3 due 2/8/24 sell $1,000,001 – $5,000,000 self
2024-01-24 United States Treasury Bills CUSIP 912797JB4 due 1/30/24 sell $1,000,001 – $5,000,000 self
2023-05-02 US Treasury Bill CUSIP 912796ZG7 due 6/1/23 sell $5,000,001 – $25,000,000 self
2023-05-02 Treasury Bill CUSIP 91279FN2 due 6/13/23 sell $5,000,001 – $25,000,000 self
2023-03-24 Treasury Bill CUSIP 912796YN3 due 4/6/23 sell $5,000,001 – $25,000,000 self
2023-03-15 Treasury Bill CUSIP 912796YN3 due 4/6/23 sell $5,000,001 – $25,000,000 self
2023-03-10 Treasury Bill CUSIP 912796YN3 Due 4/6/23 sell $5,000,001 – $25,000,000 self
2023-02-23 Treasury Bill CUSIP 912796YN3 due 4/6/23 sell $5,000,001 – $25,000,000 self
2023-02-09 Treasury Bill CUSIP 912796YN3 due 4/6/23 sell $5,000,001 – $25,000,000 self