Hidden for 332 Days: Congress's Worst Late Stock Disclosures of 2026

The STOCK Act gives members of Congress 45 days to disclose a stock trade. In 2026, a handful sat on them for the better part of a year — and in two cases the shares climbed sharply before the public ever found out.

By Beltway Alpha · Edited by Sean Baptiste · Published 2026-05-29

The law isn't ambiguous: buy or sell a stock, and a member of Congress has 45 days to put it on the public record. Most comply. A handful, this year, weren't close.

The longest silence: 332 days

The longest delay belongs to Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA). He bought JPMorgan Chase ($JPM) on June 17, 2025 — and didn't disclose it until May 15, 2026. That is 332 days, more than seven times the legal window, a stretch spanning hundreds of floor votes.

One filing, ten overdue trades

Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA) turned lateness into a batch job. Her purchase of Alphabet ($GOOGL) from July 2, 2025 went undisclosed for 196 days — over which the shares rose roughly 88%. An Advanced Micro Devices ($AMD) buy sat for 211 days.

Both arrived inside a single January 14 filing that swept up about ten overdue transactions at once, including sales of Boeing ($BA) and Accenture ($ACN) logged some 173 to 174 days after the fact.

Two trades, eight months later

Sen. John Boozman (R-AR) disclosed a pair of September 2025 purchases together in May 2026. His Alphabet ($GOOGL) buy surfaced 236 days late, by which point the stock had climbed about 56%; a bond fund bought a day earlier ran 237 days late.

And they weren't alone

The pattern runs wider. Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) disclosed five trades from a single November 2025 day 81 days late, among them a sale of Alphabet ($GOOGL) that rose about 20% in the interim. Rep. Dwight Evans (D-PA) filed a CVS Health ($CVS) sale 175 days late, and Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) a pair of Eli Lilly ($LLY) trades 97 days late.

None of this is illegal trading. It is a disclosure-timing failure — the public's window into what its representatives are buying and selling, shut for months at a stretch. Each of the disclosed transactions above falls in the smallest reporting band, ,001–5,000. The 45-day clock is the law. The receipts are public.

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Hidden for 332 Days: Congress's Worst Late Stock Disclosures of 2026

The STOCK Act gives members of Congress 45 days to disclose a stock trade. In 2026, a handful sat on them for the better part of a year — and in two cases the shares climbed sharply before the public ever found out.