Mark Warner Leads Congress's Top 5 Buyers With $80K in 30 Days

Ten trades, one senator, and a surprising amount of chocolate. The last 30 days in Congressional purchase volume, ranked.

By Beltway Alpha · Edited by Sean Baptiste · Published 2026-05-06

Mark Warner tops this month's buyer board with 10 disclosed purchases totaling $80K at midpoint over the last 30 days, with heaviest concentration in Hershey. That's ten separate trips to the buy window, which is ten more than most of his colleagues managed. These are purchase disclosures only, sales not counted, and the STOCK Act's top range is 'over $50 million,' meaning every number here is a floor, not a ceiling. The full picture is probably larger. It's always larger.

#5 Bob Latta

Bob Latta — Photo: House Creative Services, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

1 disclosed purchases totaling $8K at midpoint over the last 30 days. Top concentration: $FMAO.

Latta's lone $8K purchase went into Farmers & Merchants Financial Group, a small Ohio bank holding company that trades on the OTC markets. It's the quietest entry on the list. Whether that's discipline or just a different kind of portfolio management is between Latta and his broker.

#4 Cleo Fields

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1 disclosed purchases totaling $8K at midpoint over the last 30 days. Top concentration: $TSM.

Fields put a single $8K position into Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. One trade, one of the most geopolitically sensitive names on the board, right as Washington can't stop talking about export controls and chip supply chains. Timing is a choice.

#3 Rick Larsen

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4 disclosed purchases totaling $32K at midpoint over the last 30 days. Top concentration: $CARR.

Four purchases, $32K at midpoint, top concentration in Carrier Global. Larsen sits on the House Armed Services and Transportation committees, and Carrier makes HVAC systems and aerospace components. The portfolio is at least in the neighborhood of his committee work, which is more than we can say for some entries on this list.

#2 Greg Steube

Greg Steube — Photo: House Creative Services, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

1 disclosed purchases totaling $32K at midpoint over the last 30 days. Top concentration: $MAR.

Steube dropped a single $32K purchase into Marriott International, which is either a very expensive loyalty-program hack or a bet that business travel survives whatever Congress does next. One trade, full commitment.

#1 Mark Warner

Mark Warner — Photo: Unknown, Unknown license, via Wikimedia Commons

10 disclosed purchases totaling $80K at midpoint over the last 30 days. Top concentration: $HSY.

Warner put in 10 trades over 30 days and loaded up hardest on Hershey. The Senator from Virginia, who sits on the Senate Intelligence and Finance Committees, has apparently decided that cocoa futures are the play right now. The Fed can't control inflation but Warner has a thesis.

Five members. Five different reads on where this economy is going. They all get classified intelligence briefings as part of the job, and they all bought stock recently. The STOCK Act requires the disclosure. It does not require anything else.

The receipts are public. Make of them what you make of them.

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Mark Warner Leads Congress's Top 5 Buyers With $80K in 30 Days

Ten trades, one senator, and a surprising amount of chocolate. The last 30 days in Congressional purchase volume, ranked.