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Brenda L. Lawrence Democrat · MI-14

House of Representatives · former member · serving since 2015 · born October 18, 1954

Transactions 18 across 1 filings
Securities traded 15 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $32,018 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 4 examine

In plain language

Of 18 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
MI-14 114th–117th 2015–2023 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

No current committee assignments on file (former member).

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
117thHouse Committee on Appropriations Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
117thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
116thHouse Committee on Appropriations Member 2019-02 → 2020-12
116thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thHouse Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Member 2019-01 → 2019-01
115thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thHouse Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
114thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thHouse Committee on Small Business Member 2015-02 → 2016-12

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

15 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
UBER Uber Technologies, Inc. Common Stock (U… Business Services 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2019-08 → 2019-08
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation - Common Stock (NVDA) Semiconductors 2 2 / 0 $16,001 2017-03 → 2019-05
UAA Under Armour Consumer Goods 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2019-05 → 2019-05
F Ford Motor Company Common Stock (F) Automotive 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2019-05 → 2019-05
NIO NIO Inc. American depositary shares, ea… Automotive 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2019-03 → 2019-03
CGC Canopy growth Corporation - Common Shar… 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2018-10 → 2018-10
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. - Common Stock (AMZN) Retail & Consumer 1 1 / 0 $32,501 2018-10 → 2018-10
AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) Semiconductors 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2018-09 → 2018-09
SURG Synergetics uSA, Inc. (SuRg) 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2018-07 → 2018-07
GIS General Mills, Inc. Common Stock Food & Beverage 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2018-02 → 2018-05
SNAP Snap Inc. Class A Common Stock (SNAP) Software & IT Services 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2018-02 → 2018-05
IBM International Business Machines Corpora… Technology Hardware 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2018-02 → 2018-02
TWTR Twitter, Inc. (TWTR) 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2017-05 → 2017-05
GM General Motors Company Common Stock (GM) Automotive 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2016-12 → 2016-12
GS Goldman Sachs Group Capital Markets 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2016-12 → 2016-12

The Spread by year

YearSpreadTrades pricedDisclosed value
2019 -14.9% 4 $32,002
2018 -8.1% 7 $80,504

Transaction timing versus the market over 90 trading days — not portfolio return, which these filings cannot support. See Methodology and the Scoreboard for the population baseline.

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2019-08-12 UBER uber Technologies, Inc. (uBER) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2019-05-14 UAA under Armour, Inc. Class A (uAA) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2019-05-14 NVDA NVIdIA Corporation (NVdA) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2019-05-10 F Ford Motor Company (F) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2019-03-14 NIO NIO Inc. American depositary shares, each representing one Class A ordinary share (NIO) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2018-10-23 CGC Canopy growth Corporation (CgC) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2018-10-11 AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) buy $15,001 – $50,000 spouse
2018-09-10 AMD Advanced Micro devices, Inc. (AMd) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2018-07-12 SURG Synergetics uSA, Inc. (SuRg) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2018-05-14 GIS general Mills, Inc. (gIS) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2018-05-04 SNAP Snap Inc. Class A (SNAP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2018-02-27 IBM International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2018-02-27 GIS general Mills, Inc. (gIS) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2018-02-20 SNAP Snap Inc. Class A (SNAP) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2017-05-24 TWTR Twitter, Inc. (TWTR) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2017-03-02 NVDA NVIdIA Corporation (NVdA) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2016-12-27 GS goldman Sachs group, Inc. (gS) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2016-12-27 GM general Motors Company (gM) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse