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John Kennedy Republican · LA

Senate · in office · serving since 2017 · born November 21, 1951

Transactions 3 across 2 filings
Securities traded 2 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $3,003 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 1 examine

In plain language

Of 3 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, LA 115th–118th 2017–2029 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 8 majority
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Member 5 majority
Senate Committee on the Budget Member 7 majority
Senate Committee on the Judiciary Member 7 majority

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thSenate Committee on Appropriations Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on the Budget Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
117thSenate Committee on Appropriations Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on the Budget 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 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on the Budget Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
115thSenate Committee on Appropriations Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship 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

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

2 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
NLY Annaly Capital Management Inc Company: … Investment Funds 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2025-04 → 2025-04
MTUM iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2018-10 → 2018-10

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2025-04-21 NLY Annaly Capital Management Inc Company: Annaly Capital Management Inc. ?(New York, New York) Description:?Mortgage Real Estate Investment Trust buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-10-11 MTUM iShares Edge MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-10-09 CVG (Exchanged) SNX (Received) exchange $1,001 – $15,000 self