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George Whitesides Democrat · CA-27

House of Representatives · in office · serving since 2025 · born March 3, 1974

Transactions 35 across 2 filings
Securities traded 34 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $2,372,035 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 0 none recorded

In plain language

Of 35 disclosed trades, 0 were flagged by the site's published rules.

None of these trades met the flagging rules. That is the ordinary result — most trades, by most members, are unremarkable.

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
CA-27 119th 2025–2027 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
House Committee on Armed Services Member 23 minority
House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Member 13 minority

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

34 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
NFLX Netflix, Inc. - Common Stock (NFLX) Media & Entertainment 1 0 / 1 $175,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
PL Planet Labs PBC Class A Common Stock (P… 1 0 / 1 $75,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
INVA Innoviva, Inc. - Common Stock (INVA) 2 0 / 2 $450,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
NEE NextEra Energy, Inc. Common Stock (NEE) Utilities 1 0 / 1 $75,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
MSFT Microsoft Corporation - Common Stock (M… Software & IT Services 1 0 / 1 $375,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
NVS Novartis Ag ADR Pharmaceuticals & Biotech 1 0 / 1 $175,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
PG Procter & Gamble Company (PG) Chemicals 1 0 / 1 $175,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
RSG Republic Services, Inc. Common Stock (R… Utilities 1 0 / 1 $175,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
ROK Rockwell Automation, Inc. Common Stock Medical Devices 1 0 / 1 $75,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
RCL Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Common Sto… Transportation 1 0 / 1 $175,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
RTX Raytheon Technologies Corp Defense & Aerospace 1 0 / 1 $75,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
SDZNY SANDOZ GROUP AG S/ADR (SDZNY) 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
TXN Texas Instruments Incorporated - Common… Semiconductors 1 0 / 1 $75,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
TBPH Theravance Biopharma, Inc. - Ordinary S… 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2025-03 → 2025-03
UNP Union Pacific Corporation Common Stock … Transportation 1 0 / 1 $75,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
SPCE Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. Common S… Other 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
V Visa Inc. (V) Business Services 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2025-03 → 2025-03
DIS Walt Disney Company Media & Entertainment 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2025-03 → 2025-03
AEP American Electric Power Company, Inc. (… Utilities 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2025-03 → 2025-03
MDT Medtronic plc. Ordinary Shares (MDT) Medical Devices 1 0 / 1 $75,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
MCD McDonald's Corporation Common Stock Retail & Consumer 1 0 / 1 $175,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
MMC Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. Common… 1 0 / 1 $175,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
LMT Lockheed Martin Corporation Common Stoc… Defense & Aerospace 1 0 / 1 $75,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
LIN Linde plc - Ordinary Shares (LIN) Chemicals 1 0 / 1 $175,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
JPM JP Morgan Chase & Co. Common Stock (JPM) Banking 1 0 / 1 $75,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
JNJ Johnson & Johnson Common Stock (JNJ) Pharmaceuticals & Biotech 1 0 / 1 $175,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
INTC Intel Corporation - Common Stock (INTC) Semiconductors 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2025-03 → 2025-03
HD Home Depot, Inc. (HD) Retail & Consumer 1 0 / 1 $175,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
DEO Diageo Plc ADR Food & Beverage 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2025-03 → 2025-03
CMCSA Comcast Corporation - Class A Common St… Telecommunications 1 0 / 1 $75,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
KO Coca-Cola Company Food & Beverage 1 0 / 1 $175,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
C Citigroup Inc Banking 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2025-03 → 2025-03
CB Chubb Ltd Insurance 1 0 / 1 $175,001 2025-03 → 2025-03
BAC Bank of America Corp Banking 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2025-03 → 2025-03

The Spread by year

YearSpreadTrades pricedDisclosed value
2025 +2.4% 28 $3,035,514

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
2025-03-27 NFLX Netflix, Inc. - Common Stock (NFLX) sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2025-03-27 PL Planet Labs PBC Class A Common Stock (PL) sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2025-03-25 INVA Innoviva, Inc. - Common Stock (INVA) sell $250,001 – $500,000 spouse
2025-03-24 DIS Walt Disney Company (DIS) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2025-03-24 V Visa Inc. (V) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2025-03-24 SPCE Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. Common Stock (SPCE) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2025-03-24 UNP Union Pacific Corporation Common Stock (UNP) sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2025-03-24 TBPH Theravance Biopharma, Inc. - Ordinary Shares (TBPH) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2025-03-24 TXN Texas Instruments Incorporated - Common Stock (TXN) sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2025-03-24 SDZNY SANDOZ GROUP AG S/ADR (SDZNY) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2025-03-24 RTX RTX Corporation Common Stock (RTX) sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2025-03-24 RCL Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Common Stock (RCL) sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2025-03-24 ROK Rockwell Automation, Inc. Common Stock (ROK) sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2025-03-24 RSG Republic Services, Inc. Common Stock (RSG) sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2025-03-24 PG Procter & Gamble Company (PG) sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2025-03-24 NVS Novartis AG Common Stock (NVS) sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2025-03-24 NEE NextEra Energy, Inc. Common Stock (NEE) sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2025-03-24 MSFT Microsoft Corporation - Common Stock (MSFT) sell $250,001 – $500,000 self
2025-03-24 MDT Medtronic plc. Ordinary Shares (MDT) sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2025-03-24 MCD McDonald's Corporation Common Stock (MCD) sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2025-03-24 MMC Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. Common Stock (MMC) sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2025-03-24 LMT Lockheed Martin Corporation Common Stock (LMT) sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2025-03-24 LIN Linde plc - Ordinary Shares (LIN) sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2025-03-24 JPM JP Morgan Chase & Co. Common Stock (JPM) sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2025-03-24 JNJ Johnson & Johnson Common Stock (JNJ) sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2025-03-24 INTC Intel Corporation - Common Stock (INTC) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2025-03-24 INVA Innoviva, Inc. - Common Stock (INVA) sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2025-03-24 HD Home Depot, Inc. (HD) sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2025-03-24 DEO Diageo plc Common Stock (DEO) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2025-03-24 CMCSA Comcast Corporation - Class A Common Stock (CMCSA) sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2025-03-24 KO Coca-Cola Company (KO) sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2025-03-24 C Citigroup, Inc. Common Stock (C) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2025-03-24 CB Chubb Limited Common Stock (CB) sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2025-03-24 BAC Bank of America Corporation Common Stock (BAC) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2025-03-24 AEP American Electric Power Company, Inc. (AEP) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self