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A. Donald McEachin Democrat · VA-4

House of Representatives · former member · serving since 2017 · born October 10, 1961

Transactions 6 across 6 filings
Securities traded 6 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $6,006 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 5 examine

In plain language

Of 6 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
VA-4 115th–117th 2017–2022 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 Energy and Commerce Member 2021-03 → 2022-10
117thHouse Committee on Natural Resources Member 2021-03 → 2022-10
116thHouse Committee on Armed Services Member 2019-01 → 2019-01
116thHouse Committee on Energy and Commerce Member 2019-02 → 2020-12
116thHouse Committee on Natural Resources Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
115thHouse Committee on Armed Services Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thHouse Committee on Natural Resources 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

6 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
RIVN Rivian Automotive, Inc. - Class A (RIVN) Automotive 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2021-12 → 2021-12
AXP American Express Company Banking 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2021-12 → 2021-12
TXN Texas Instruments Incorporated - Common… Semiconductors 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2021-11 → 2021-11
NXPI NXP Semiconductors N.V. - Common Stock … Semiconductors 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2021-11 → 2021-11
ON ON Semiconductor Corporation - Common S… Semiconductors 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2021-11 → 2021-11
D Dominion Energy Inc Utilities 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2021-11 → 2021-11

The Spread by year

YearSpreadTrades pricedDisclosed value
2021 +1.9% 5 $40,003

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
2021-12-17 RIVN Rivian Automotive, Inc. - Class A (RIVN) buy $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2021-12-01 AXP American Express Company (AXP) buy $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2021-11-24 ON ON Semiconductor Corporation (ON) buy $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2021-11-24 NXPI NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXPI) buy $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2021-11-24 TXN Texas Instruments Incorporated (TXN) buy $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2021-11-23 D Dominion Energy, Inc. (D) buy $1,001 – $15,000 joint