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Mike Rounds Republican · SD

Senate · in office · serving since 2015 · born October 24, 1954

Transactions 2 across 2 filings
Securities traded 0 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $265,002 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 0 none recorded

In plain language

Of 2 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.

Campaign money 2026 cycle

Raised $4,513,920
From individuals $1,686,338
From PACs $2,134,950
Cash on hand $2,736,664

Campaign finance from the FEC, shown as context beside the trading record. We do not draw a line from any donor to any trade: the FEC's donor data cannot support that honestly, and inventing the link would be the kind of unsourced inference this site refuses. Read the two together and judge for yourself.

Seat & district history

SeatCongressesServedChange
Senator, SD 114th–117th 2015–2027 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
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Member 4 majority
Senate Committee on Appropriations Member 13 majority
Senate Committee on Armed Services Member 4 majority
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Member 3 majority
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Member 4 majority
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Member 7 majority

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Indian Affairs Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Veterans' Affairs Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Select Committee on Intelligence Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
117thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Environment and Public Works Member 2021-01 → 2021-01
117thSenate Committee on Foreign Relations Member 2021-02 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Indian Affairs Member 2021-02 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Veterans' Affairs Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
116thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on Environment and Public Works Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2019-01 → 2019-01
116thSenate Committee on Veterans' Affairs Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
115thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Environment and Public Works Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Veterans' Affairs Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
114thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on Environment and Public Works Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on Veterans' Affairs 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.

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2021-05-01 Bird Dog Hospitality Fund 1, LLC Company: Bird Dog Equity Partners ?(Sioux Falls, SD) Description:?Hospitality buy $15,001 – $50,000 joint
2019-03-31 Bird Dog Hospitality Fund 2, LLC Company: Bird Dog Equity Partners ?(Sioux Falls, SD) Description:?Property Investment buy $250,001 – $500,000 self