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Members of Congress have up to 45 days after a stock trade to disclose it. Compare their delays using the filing dates in our stored records.
1 The filing window
Members must disclose a trade within 30 days of receiving notice, with a limit of 45 days after the trade date. We measure delay beyond day 45 because we lack notice dates.
Compare the bars at 4 pixels per day: 180 pixels for the filing window, plus 4 pixels for each day late. We place labels outside the bars to preserve that scale.
Near the middle of recorded late filings
151 days past the deadline (disclosure: day 196)
Extreme delay (not representative)
2,334 days past the deadline (disclosure: day 2,379)
We chose the filing closest to the 153-day median among those with official receipts in the middle half of the late-filing cohort. Use it to compare late filings, rather than to judge a typical member or filing across Congress.
Middle example: Debbie Wasserman Schultz traded on Dec 18, 2023 and disclosed on Jul 1, 2024, 151 days past the Feb 1, 2024 deadline. Extreme: Richard W. Allen traded on Feb 3, 2017 and disclosed on Aug 10, 2023, 2,334 days past the Mar 20, 2017 deadline.
2 The pattern
Cohort: We count 418 distinct late filings with filing links, one per filer at the worst late line. Members disclosed these trades from May 8, 2014 to Jun 19, 2026. We exclude 3,374 measured filings with no late lines.
Bins: Compare counts in equal 180-day intervals on a linear axis from 0.
Members filed 129 of these 418 filings within 30 days past the deadline, and 112 more than 365 days late. We measured a median of 153 days late and a maximum of 2,334 days.
| Days past deadline | Late filings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1–180 | 221 | 52.9% |
| 181–360 | 81 | 19.4% |
| 361–540 | 81 | 19.4% |
| 541–720 | 14 | 3.3% |
| 721–900 | 12 | 2.9% |
| 901–1,080 | 4 | 1.0% |
| 1,081–1,260 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 1,261–1,440 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 1,441–1,620 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 1,621–1,800 | 3 | 0.7% |
| 1,801–1,980 | 1 | 0.2% |
| 1,981–2,160 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2,161–2,340 | 1 | 0.2% |
| All | 418 | 100% |
3 The accumulation
We use tile area to compare accumulated days late across filings. Read this scale in days per tile, separate from the calendar ruler.
We add the days late across filings, including periods when members' delays overlap.
1 tile = 10 days late across filings. We use tile area in proportion to days, including a fraction of a tile for any remainder. Count days with these tiles; use the labels for filing counts.
Thomas R. Suozzi ranks first in the tracked record with 3,786 accumulated days late across 4 late filings. At 10 days per tile, we use 378.60 tiles. Inspect the receipts.
One contribution per filing
Thomas R. Suozzi reported 441 late trades among 445 measured lines in filing 20019379. We count 1,677 days for the filing, using the worst late line: ticker not stated, trade date Jan 5, 2017, measured disclosure date Sep 23, 2021. You would get 285,399 days by adding the trade delays instead of taking the maximum per filing.
Overview scale: 1 tile = 100 days. We use 10 times the days per tile to keep the total within 3,000 tiles. Compare the total and the member's highlighted share at this new scale.
Across the stored records of past and present members, we count 100,789 days = 1007.89 tiles at 100 days per tile. Within that total, we highlight Thomas R. Suozzi's 3,786 days (3.8%).
We sum the full leaderboard for this total and the homepage's accumulated days late. You get the same total regardless of homepage filters or pagination.
We exclude paper filings and records with range or missing dates from these calculations. We cannot measure their delays.
Read the methodology · Sources: House Clerk, Senate eFD
