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Issue record

Ethics, stock trading and campaign money

In short

Paige Cognetti's campaign backs a congressional stock-trading ban, says it takes no corporate PAC money, and says she owns no individual stocks. Rob Bresnahan's campaign says members should never be allowed to trade stocks. Cognetti's disclosure lists no individual stock; whether $1,000 from a law firm's PAC counts as corporate is not settled. Bresnahan reported over 600 legal stock and option trades in 2025 and voted for a House-passed stock-buying ban that is not law.

Campaign positions

What each campaign says.

Paige Cognetti

Would ban stock trading by members of Congress, says she owns no individual stocks, and says her campaign takes no corporate PAC money. Would also bar former members from lobbying and sitting members from corporate boards.

Rob Bresnahan Jr

Says members of Congress should never be allowed to trade their own stocks and profit from what they learn in office.

Evidence timeline

What the record shows.

  1. official action

    Paige Cognetti: Matches stated record claim

    Her August 2026 House disclosure lists bank accounts, mutual and retirement funds and her husband's private company, and no individual stock.

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    She says she owns no individual stocks and will not buy or trade them if elected. Her House candidate disclosure, filed August 13, 2026 and covering January 2025 to July 14, 2026, lists bank and money-market accounts, mutual and retirement funds, and her husband's private company, Caravia Fresh Foods. It lists no individual stock. Limit: The report covers holdings through July 14, 2026. Her promise about the future cannot be checked yet. Her husband's stake in a private business is not a traded stock.

  2. campaign position

    Rob Bresnahan Jr: Not comparable yet

    His 2025 reports list over 600 stock and option trades and say advisers decided from August; 2026 reports list only government bond buys, and his 2025 annual report lists individual stocks.

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    He says members of Congress should never be allowed to trade their own stocks, a belief he says predates his time in office. His 18 stock-trade reports for 2025 list more than 600 trades in individual stocks and options, from January to December 11, 2025. From August 2025 the reports say advisers make the decisions and he has no role. His three 2026 reports list only purchases of government bonds and Treasury notes. His 2025 annual report, filed August 13, 2026, still lists individual stocks among his assets. Limit: He is talking about what the law should allow. Members could legally trade, and these trades come from his own reports. The count is a hand count of those reports.

  3. official action

    Rob Bresnahan Jr: Matches stated record claim

    He filed his own trading ban in 2025, cosponsored another, signed a discharge petition, and voted for the Stop Insider Trading Act the House passed in July 2026.

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    His office says he has long pushed to ban stock trading by members of Congress, a belief he says he has held since before taking office. He introduced H.R. 3182 on May 5, 2025 to bar members and spouses from trading stock; it drew no cosponsors and has not moved. He cosponsored Rep. Chip Roy's ban, H.R. 5106, in September 2025. On December 10, 2025 he signed the discharge petition to force a vote on H.R. 1908, which would ban members from owning stock, not only trading it. He is an original cosponsor of the Stop Insider Trading Act, H.R. 7008, and voted for it when it passed the House 232-198 on July 22, 2026. The Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to take it up on September 30. Limit: The bill that passed, H.R. 7008, bars buying new stocks; members could keep what they own and sell after 7 to 14 days' public notice. His own trading is on the next card.

  4. campaign position

    Paige Cognetti: record does not settle this

    Her campaign took $1,000 from a corporation-connected law-firm PAC in June 2026, with no refund through June 30. The FEC category may differ from her pledge's meaning.

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    She says her campaign takes no money from corporate PACs. Through June 30, 2026 her campaign took $429,599 from other political committees. One $1,000 contribution, on June 18, 2026, came from the Duane Morris Government Committee, a law firm's PAC that the FEC records as connected to a corporation. No refund of it appears through June 30. Why there is no verdict: Whether a law firm's PAC is the kind of corporate PAC she means, and whether the $1,000 was returned after June 30, the filings so far do not say. Her October report, due October 15, will show any refund. Limit: It is one $1,000 contribution among her receipts from committees. The FEC's label for the donor is not necessarily how the campaign classes it.

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Sources22 source records

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  1. Anti-Corruption Agendahttps://paigeforpa.com/anti-corruption-agenda/

    Paige For PA · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Stock trading ban, corporate PAC money, No Budget No Pay, term limits, audits, lobbying and board bans.

    candidate statement

    For: Paige Cognetti: campaign position; Paige Cognetti: Matches stated record claim; Paige Cognetti: record does not settle this

  2. Prioritieshttps://paigeforpa.com/priorities/

    Paige For PA · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Platform: reform, family costs, unions, manufacturing, tariffs, data centers.

    candidate statement

    For: Paige Cognetti: campaign position

  3. Bresnahan Delivers on Longstanding Push to Ban Congressional Stock Tradinghttps://bresnahan.house.gov/media/press-releases/bresnahan-delivers-longstanding-push-ban-congressional-stock-trading

    Office of Rep. Rob Bresnahan · Published Jul 22, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Release of July 22, 2026. Says the bill passed 231-198; the Clerk records 232-198.

    official office record

    For: Rob Bresnahan Jr: campaign position; Rob Bresnahan Jr: Not comparable yet; Rob Bresnahan Jr: Matches stated record claim

  4. Candidate financial disclosure report, filing 10078325 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Aug 13, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Filed August 13, 2026, covering January 1, 2025 to July 14, 2026. Assets are bank and money-market accounts, mutual and retirement funds, and her spouse's private company, Caravia Fresh Foods. No individual stock is listed.

    official office record

    For: Paige Cognetti: Matches stated record claim

  5. Financial disclosure index, 2025 filings (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Lists 18 periodic transaction reports from Bresnahan for 2025, filed February 13 to December 19, 2025, and his 2025 annual report filed August 13, 2026. Read with each report on October 1, 2026; together the 2025 reports list about 650 transactions, more than 600 of them in individual stocks or options (a hand count of the filed PDFs).

    official office record

    For: Rob Bresnahan Jr: Not comparable yet

  6. Periodic transaction report, filing 20024346 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Feb 13, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Signed February 13, 2025: the first of his 2025 reports, listing stock trades from January 2025.

    official office record

    For: Rob Bresnahan Jr: Not comparable yet

  7. Periodic transaction report, filing 20030857 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Aug 25, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Signed August 25, 2025: the first of his reports to say that professional advisers make his investment decisions. Earlier 2025 reports carry no such statement.

    official office record

    For: Rob Bresnahan Jr: Not comparable yet

  8. Periodic transaction report, filing 20033574 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Dec 19, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Signed December 19, 2025. Includes a sale of Kellanova stock on December 11, 2025, the latest individual-stock trade in his 2025 reports. Says an adviser makes his investment decisions.

    official office record

    For: Rob Bresnahan Jr: Not comparable yet

  9. Periodic transaction report, filing 20034044 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Feb 22, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Filed February 22, 2026: purchases of a Philadelphia municipal bond and a U.S. Treasury note, both coded [GS].

    official office record

    For: Rob Bresnahan Jr: Not comparable yet

  10. Periodic transaction report, filing 20034202 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Mar 18, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Filed March 18, 2026: purchases of a Parkland School District bond and a Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission bond, both coded [GS]. With 20035216 these are his only three 2026 reports in the Clerk's 2026 index (read October 1, 2026); all list government bonds or Treasury notes, no individual stock.

    official office record

    For: Rob Bresnahan Jr: Not comparable yet

  11. Periodic transaction report, filing 20035216 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Aug 12, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Signed August 12, 2026: one purchase of a U.S. Treasury note.

    official office record

    For: Rob Bresnahan Jr: Not comparable yet

  12. Annual financial disclosure report, 2025, filing 10075331 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Aug 13, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Filed August 13, 2026. Lists individual stocks among his assets, including Digital Realty Trust and Equinix, each $1,001 to $15,000, and Blackstone, $15,001 to $50,000.

    official office record

    For: Rob Bresnahan Jr: Not comparable yet

  13. H.R. 3182, to prohibit Members of Congress and their spouses from trading stockhttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3182

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Introduced May 5, 2025. Sponsor: Bresnahan. No cosponsors. Referred to the House Administration Committee; no further action.

    official legislative record

    For: Rob Bresnahan Jr: Matches stated record claim

  14. H.R. 5106, Restore Trust in Congress Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5106

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Introduced September 3, 2025 by Rep. Chip Roy. Bresnahan cosponsored on September 4, 2025. No floor action.

    official legislative record

    For: Rob Bresnahan Jr: Matches stated record claim

  15. H.R. 7008, Stop Insider Trading Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7008

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Introduced January 12, 2026 by Rep. Bryan Steil. Bresnahan is an original cosponsor. Passed the House July 22, 2026, 232-198 (Roll Call 280). On September 30, 2026 the Senate did not invoke cloture on the motion to proceed, 53-47.

    official legislative record

    For: Rob Bresnahan Jr: Matches stated record claim

  16. Roll Call 280, H.R. 7008, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026280

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Jul 22, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Recorded vote of July 22, 2026, passed 232-198. Bresnahan: Yea. On the motion to recommit just before (Roll Call 279) he voted Nay.

    official legislative record

    For: Rob Bresnahan Jr: Matches stated record claim

  17. Senate Roll Call 253, motion to proceed to H.R. 7008 (cloture)https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00253.htm

    U.S. Senate · Published Sep 30, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    September 30, 2026. Cloture not invoked, 53-47.

    official legislative record

    For: Rob Bresnahan Jr: Matches stated record claim

  18. Discharge petition 119-11 (H. Res. 725, for H.R. 1908)https://clerk.house.gov/DischargePetition/2025120211

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Petition by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, filed December 2, 2025, to force a vote on H.R. 1908. Signature 37: Robert P. Bresnahan, PA-08, Republican, December 10, 2025. No withdrawal shown when read on October 1, 2026.

    official legislative record

    For: Rob Bresnahan Jr: Matches stated record claim

  19. H.R. 1908, End Congressional Stock Trading Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1908

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Introduced March 6, 2025 by Rep. Tim Burchett. Would prohibit stock trading and ownership by members, spouses and dependent children.

    official legislative record

    For: Rob Bresnahan Jr: Matches stated record claim

  20. PAIGE FOR PA, receipts from committees, 2025-2026https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00918151/?cycle=2026&tab=raising

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Read with tools/fec-money/money.py on October 1, 2026: lines 11B (3 rows), 11C (218 rows, 24 memo) and 12 (259 rows, 243 memo), through June 30, 2026. Each line's itemized sum equals the filed total.

    fec filing

    For: Paige Cognetti: record does not settle this

  21. PAIGE FOR PA, Schedule A, line 11C, image 202607159875693717https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202607159875693717

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Receipt of $1,000 on June 18, 2026 from the Duane Morris Government Committee (C00364133). No refund to it appears on her lines 20A-20C through June 30, 2026.

    fec filing

    For: Paige Cognetti: record does not settle this

  22. DUANE MORRIS GOVERNMENT COMMITTEEhttps://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00364133/

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    The FEC records it as a qualified PAC whose connected organization type is Corporation, and as a lobbyist/registrant PAC. Duane Morris is a law firm.

    fec filing

    For: Paige Cognetti: record does not settle this