Stephen F. Lynch Democrat · MA-8
House of Representatives · in office · serving since 2001 · born March 31, 1955
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In plain language
Of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MA-8 | 113th–119th | 2013–2027 | district renumbered from 9 |
| MA-9 | 107th–112th | 2001–2013 | 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 Financial Services | Member | 5 | minority | record |
| House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | Member | 3 | minority | record |
Earlier Congresses
| Congress | Committee | Position | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 118th | House Committee on Financial Services | Member | 2023-02 → 2024-11 |
| 118th | House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | Member | 2023-02 → 2024-11 |
| 117th | House Committee on Financial Services | Member | 2021-03 → 2022-11 |
| 117th | House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | Member | 2021-03 → 2022-11 |
| 117th | House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure | Member | 2021-03 → 2022-11 |
| 116th | House Committee on Financial Services | Member | 2019-01 → 2020-12 |
| 116th | House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | Member | 2019-01 → 2020-12 |
| 116th | House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure | Member | 2019-02 → 2020-12 |
| 115th | House Committee on Financial Services | Member | 2017-01 → 2018-12 |
| 115th | House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | Member | 2017-01 → 2018-12 |
| 114th | House Committee on Financial Services | Member | 2015-02 → 2016-12 |
| 114th | House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | Member | 2015-02 → 2016-12 |
| 113th | House Committee on Financial Services | Member | 2013-01 → 2014-11 |
| 113th | House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | Member | 2013-01 → 2014-11 |
| 112th | House Committee on Financial Services | Member | 2012-11 → 2012-11 |
| 112th | House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | 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
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.
All transactions
| Date | Ticker | Asset | Action | Amount (as filed) | Owner | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-03 | — | Vanguard Target Date 2025 Mutual Fund | buy | $250,001 – $500,000 | self | record |
| 2024-06-03 | — | Fidelity Emerging Markets Mutual Fund | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2024-06-03 | — | Fidelity Contra Fund Mutual Fund | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | self | record |
| 2024-06-03 | — | Fidelity Balanced Fund | sell | $15,001 – $50,000 | self | record |
| 2024-06-03 | — | Federated Kaufman Small Cap A Mutual Fund | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2024-06-03 | — | American Funds Income Fund of America | sell | $15,001 – $50,000 | self | record |
| 2024-06-03 | — | American Funds Euro-Pacific Mutual Fund | sell | $15,001 – $50,000 | self | record |
| 2024-05-22 | NVDA | NVIDIA Corporation - Common Stock (NVDA) | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2023-11-27 | VMW | Vmware, Inc. Common stock, Class A (VMW) | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2022-12-30 | — | Nationwide Investor Destination Moderate Aggressive Mutual Fund | sell | $15,001 – $50,000 | self | record |
| 2022-12-30 | — | Invesco Development Markets Mutual Fund | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2022-12-30 | — | Fidelity Emerging Markets Mutual Fund | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2021-12-30 | — | American Funds Income Fund of America Mutual Fund | buy | $15,001 – $50,000 | self | record |