David Taylor is trending on Google News today, which is an interesting thing to say about a congressman whose last 24 hours have produced exactly zero news stories. No press conference. No scandal. No floor speech that anyone clipped. Just an algorithm deciding his name is worth surfacing, and a disclosure record that, once you start reading it, turns out to be fairly talkative on its own.
The Silence and the Filing
Zero stories in 24 hours. Six mentions on Bluesky, and a quick scan confirms most of them are about a different David Taylor entirely: an Austin alt-country opener, a British MP attending a Japan Society lunch, a guy tangentially adjacent to a Hatebreed concert recap. The congressman is, in the social-media sense, invisible.
His disclosure record on Blind Trust, however, is not invisible. Fourteen trades filed in the last 90 days. Two distinct cluster dates: April 27 and May 15. And a portfolio that on a single Friday in May decided it was done with Alphabet and Apple and very interested in AT&T, Home Depot, Medpace Holdings, and Parker Hannifin. That's a pivot. People who aren't paying attention to anything don't pivot like that on a Friday.
May 15: The Reshuffle
Seven trades landed on May 15, 2026. All disclosed together. The sell side: two separate Alphabet (GOOGL) transactions, one in the $15K-$50K range and one in the $1K-$15K range, plus an Apple (AAPL) sale in the $1K-$15K range. So: out of big tech, at least partially.
The buy side: AT&T (T), Home Depot (HD), Medpace Holdings (MEDP), and Parker Hannifin (PH), each in the $1K-$15K range. AT&T is a telecom utility play. Home Depot is a housing-adjacent consumer name. Medpace is a clinical research organization that runs drug trials. Parker Hannifin makes industrial motion and control systems.
These four have almost nothing in common with each other, and almost nothing in common with what he sold. Draw your own portrait.
April 27: The Home Depot Special
The April 27 cluster is weirder in at least one specific way. Taylor filed a sale of Home Depot (HD) in the $1K-$15K range and, on the exact same date, filed a purchase of Home Depot (HD) in the $1K-$15K range.
Sold it and bought it on the same day. The net position change is, at minimum, unclear. The filing is the filing.
The rest of April 27: a sale of Broadcom (AVGO) in the $1K-$15K range, a sale of Lam Research (LRCX) in the $1K-$15K range, and purchases of Procter & Gamble (PG), Progressive Corporation (PGR), and Visa (V), each in the $1K-$15K range. Out of semiconductors and into consumer staples, insurance, and payments. Make of that sequence what you will.
The Vote Record, and What to Notice
Taylor sits on the House Committee on Agriculture and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Those are his actual oversight lanes: farm commodities, rural development, highways, railroads, water resources. Worth keeping in mind when you scroll his vote record.
Because his recent votes are not particularly about agriculture or roads. On July 14, 2026, he voted Yea on the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act (H.R. 1181), which passed. On June 29 he voted Yea on the TRIA Program Reauthorization Act of 2026 (H.R. 7128), the terrorism risk insurance backstop that the insurance and real estate industries follow closely, which also passed. On June 25 he voted Yea on the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act of 2025 (H.R. 2478), passed. On June 23 he voted Yea on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (H.R. 6644), passed.
None of these bills fall inside Agriculture or Transportation and Infrastructure's remit. They're floor votes. Members vote on things outside their committees constantly. The record is what the record is.
TRIA is the one worth a second look, just from a portfolio angle. Progressive Corporation is a major property-casualty insurer. Taylor bought PGR on April 27. He voted to reauthorize the federal terrorism risk insurance backstop on June 29. Progressive is not a terrorism-insurance-primary carrier, and the TRIA reauthorization is a broad industry story, not a Progressive-specific one. The overlap is circumstantial. There are no vote-trade overlaps flagged in the data. This is just the calendar doing what the calendar does.
The Alpha Record: Honest Numbers
Across 93 scored trades in the disclosed record, Taylor has come out positive on 50 and negative on 43. That's a 53.8% hit rate. Slightly above coin-flip. His mean 30-day alpha versus the S&P 500 is +1.3 percentage points per trade. Not spectacular. Not embarrassing. About what you'd expect from someone who files a lot of $1K-$15K positions and rotates between sectors every few weeks.
The best individual trade in the scored sample: a purchase of Lam Research (LRCX) on March 12, 2026, which generated +21.2% alpha in 30 days. The same LRCX that he sold on April 27. The buy was good timing. The sell was his call to make. No committee overlap flagged on either leg.
The second-best: a purchase of Amgen (AMGN) on January 16, 2026, +16.5% alpha in 30 days. Third-best: a purchase of AT&T (T) on January 29, 2026, +16.4% alpha. He bought AT&T again on May 15. Whether that's pattern recognition or coincidence, the data doesn't say.
The worst trade in the sample: a sale of Medpace Holdings (MEDP) on January 16, 2026, which cost him -28.5% in relative terms over 30 days. He then bought Medpace on May 15, 2026. If you sold a stock at the wrong time and then bought it back four months later, you probably have thoughts about that. Taylor's disclosure forms don't include a notes section.
Second-worst: a sale of Kroger (KR) on March 24, 2026, -13.3% alpha. Third-worst: the sale of Home Depot (HD) on April 27, -13.1% alpha. That's the same April 27 date on which he also bought Home Depot. Whatever the logic was, the sell leg underperformed by 13 points.
The full record has no committee-overlap trades. Zero. Every flagged trade sits outside Agriculture and Transportation. Which means the COI angle isn't here. The pattern that is here is a member who moves frequently, in small amounts, across a range of sectors, and posts a slightly-above-average result by the numbers. Fifty out of ninety-three. One-point-three percent mean alpha. That's the stat line.
The Institutional Reminder You Already Know
Members are required to disclose stock trades within 45 days of the transaction. They are not required to divest, recuse, or explain themselves. The forms are public. The logic behind any given trade is not.
Taylor's full disclosure history is on Blind Trust. Fourteen trades in 90 days. Two cluster dates. A tech sell-off, an industrial buy-in, a Home Depot that got sold and bought on the same afternoon, and a vote record that wandered through insurance, privacy, and housing finance without ever touching the committees he actually sits on.
He's trending today for reasons the algorithm hasn't explained. The receipts are public. Make of them what you make of them.