Lamar Smith Republican · TX-21
House of Representatives · former member · serving since 1987 · born November 19, 1947
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In plain language
Of 8 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
| Seat | Congresses | Served | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| TX-21 | 100th–115th | 1987–2019 | 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
| Congress | Committee | Position | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 115th | House Committee on Homeland Security | Member | 2017-01 → 2018-12 |
| 115th | House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology | Chair | 2017-01 → 2018-12 |
| 115th | House Committee on the Judiciary | Member | 2017-01 → 2018-12 |
| 114th | House Committee on Homeland Security | Member | 2015-02 → 2016-12 |
| 114th | House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology | Chair | 2015-02 → 2016-12 |
| 114th | House Committee on the Judiciary | Member | 2015-02 → 2016-12 |
| 113th | House Committee on Homeland Security | Member | 2013-01 → 2014-11 |
| 113th | House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology | Chair | 2013-01 → 2014-11 |
| 113th | House Committee on the Judiciary | Member | 2013-01 → 2014-11 |
| 112th | House Committee on Homeland Security | Member | 2012-11 → 2012-11 |
| 112th | House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology | Member | 2012-11 → 2012-11 |
| 112th | House Committee on the Judiciary | Chair | 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
No transactions disclosed in the last 6 months.
Previously traded
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.
| Ticker | Security | Sector | Trades | Buys / Sells | Total value | Active |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PTLA | Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (PTLa) | — | 1 | 1 / 0 | $8,001 | 2019-01 → 2019-01 |
| G | genpact Limited (g) | — | 1 | 1 / 0 | $8,001 | 2018-12 → 2018-12 |
| KO | Coca-Cola Company | Food & Beverage | 1 | 1 / 0 | $8,001 | 2018-12 → 2018-12 |
| MNST | Monster Beverage Corporation - Common S… | Food & Beverage | 1 | 0 / 1 | $8,001 | 2018-12 → 2018-12 |
| CPRT | Copart, Inc. - Common Stock | Retail & Consumer | 1 | 1 / 0 | $8,001 | 2018-12 → 2018-12 |
| COST | Costco Wholesale | Retail & Consumer | 1 | 1 / 0 | $8,001 | 2018-12 → 2018-12 |
| EL | Estee Lauder Companies | Chemicals | 1 | 1 / 0 | $8,001 | 2018-12 → 2018-12 |
| FB | Meta Platforms, Inc. - Class A (FB) | — | 1 | 0 / 1 | $8,001 | 2018-12 → 2018-12 |
The Spread by year
| Year | Spread | Trades priced | Disclosed value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | +3.0% | 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
| Date | Ticker | Asset | Action | Amount (as filed) | Owner | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-02 | PTLA | Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (PTLa) | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2018-12-21 | G | genpact Limited (g) | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2018-12-20 | MNST | Monster beverage Corporation (MNST) | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2018-12-20 | KO | Coca-Cola Company (Ko) | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2018-12-19 | FB | Facebook, Inc. - Class a (Fb) | sell | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2018-12-19 | EL | Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. (EL) | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2018-12-19 | COST | Costco Wholesale Corporation (CoST) | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2018-12-19 | CPRT | Copart, Inc. (CPRT) | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |