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Brad Sherman Democrat · CA-32

House of Representatives · in office · serving since 1997 · born October 24, 1954

Transactions 11 across 4 filings
Securities traded 0 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $2,282,011 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 0 none recorded

In plain language

Of 11 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 $2,514,330
From individuals $1,424,014
From PACs $703,424
Cash on hand $2,668,480

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
CA-32 118th–119th 2023–2027 district renumbered from 30
CA-30 113th–117th 2013–2023 district renumbered from 27
CA-27 108th–112th 2003–2013 district renumbered from 24
CA-24 105th–107th 1997–2003 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 3 minority
House Committee on Foreign Affairs Member 2 minority

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thHouse Committee on Foreign Affairs Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
117thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
117thHouse Committee on Foreign Affairs Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
117thHouse Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
116thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thHouse Committee on Foreign Affairs Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thHouse Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Member 2019-02 → 2020-12
115thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thHouse Committee on Foreign Affairs Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
114thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thHouse Committee on Foreign Affairs Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
113thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
113thHouse Committee on Foreign Affairs Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
112thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2012-11 → 2012-11
112thHouse Committee on Foreign Affairs 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.

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2022-11-28 TIPS Bond (Treasury Inflation Protected Security) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2022-11-28 Mount Diablo Hospital District Bond sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2022-11-07 US Treasury Inflation Protected Notes sell $250,001 – $500,000 self
2022-11-03 US Treasury Notes sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2022-11-03 US Treasury Notes sell $250,001 – $500,000 self
2022-11-03 US Treasury Inflation Protected Note #2 sell $250,001 – $500,000 self
2022-11-03 US Treasury Inflation Protected Note sell $500,001 – $1,000,000 self
2022-11-03 US Treasury Inflation Protected Note sell $250,001 – $500,000 self
2022-08-26 US Treasury Inflation Protected Notes buy $500,001 – $1,000,000 self
2022-07-13 US Treasury Notes buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2022-05-10 US Treasury Notes buy $250,001 – $500,000 self

Filings not yet machine-readable (3)

Scanned or handwritten disclosures our parser could not read. They are listed here rather than hidden — the original document is one click away.