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Stephen F. Lynch Democrat · MA-8

House of Representatives · in office · serving since 2001 · born March 31, 1955

Transactions 13 across 4 filings
Securities traded 2 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $431,013 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 0 none recorded

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

SeatCongressesServedChange
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)

CommitteePositionRankSideJurisdiction
House Committee on Financial Services Member 5 minority
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 3 minority

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
117thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
117thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
117thHouse Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
116thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thHouse Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Member 2019-02 → 2020-12
115thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
114thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
113thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
113thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
112thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2012-11 → 2012-11
112thHouse 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

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
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation - Common Stock (NVDA) Semiconductors 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2024-05 → 2024-05
VMW Vmware, Inc. Common stock, Class A 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2023-11 → 2023-11

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2024-06-03 Vanguard Target Date 2025 Mutual Fund buy $250,001 – $500,000 self
2024-06-03 Fidelity Emerging Markets Mutual Fund sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2024-06-03 Fidelity Contra Fund Mutual Fund sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2024-06-03 Fidelity Balanced Fund sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2024-06-03 Federated Kaufman Small Cap A Mutual Fund sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2024-06-03 American Funds Income Fund of America sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2024-06-03 American Funds Euro-Pacific Mutual Fund sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2024-05-22 NVDA NVIDIA Corporation - Common Stock (NVDA) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2023-11-27 VMW Vmware, Inc. Common stock, Class A (VMW) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2022-12-30 Nationwide Investor Destination Moderate Aggressive Mutual Fund sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2022-12-30 Invesco Development Markets Mutual Fund sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2022-12-30 Fidelity Emerging Markets Mutual Fund buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-12-30 American Funds Income Fund of America Mutual Fund buy $15,001 – $50,000 self