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INSIDER's Conflicted Congress: House 2020

Insider
built this database as a part of “Conflicted Congress,” a five-month investigation involving more than 40 journalists and researchers.

Please credit by name “Insider” and “
Insider’s ‘Conflicted Congress’” project when citing this data in published work.

Insider compiled the congressional personal financial databases using publicly available annual financial disclosures filed by each member of Congress. Members of Congress submitted these disclosures during the course of several months beginning in the spring of 2021. The documents generally detail their personal finances for calendar year 2020. Insider did not include any financial disclosures or amendments submitted after November 12, 2021.

The disclosures were most often submitted as non-machine-readable PDFs or, in more than 40 instances, handwritten. Where possible, Insider converted the PDFs into comma-separated value format. But in dozens of cases, the disclosures required manual data entry. When an entry was not fully legible, Insider marked the data with question marks or as “illegible.”

Insider's database does not include four members of Congress whose disclosures were uniquely complicated and lengthy, comprising hundreds of pages of handwritten or scanned documents: Reps.
Ro Khanna of California, Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Kurt Schrader of Oregon, and Harold Rogers of Kentucky.

Have a question about the data? Email hbeckler@insider.com.