WASHINGTON — Rep. Gil Cisneros of California, the House’s most active stock trader this year, reported 64 more transactions in a periodic transaction report filed Nov. 10, pushing his 2026 total past 1,000, according to House Clerk records and an Inquisitor tally. Reps. Chuck Fleischmann of Tennessee and Julie Johnson of Texas filed new reports the same day.
The three reports, posted in the Clerk’s financial disclosure database, list 72 new transactions valued at a combined $1,455,072 to $3,850,000. Members report each trade as a value range rather than an exact amount, so the figures here are the sums of the low and high ends of those ranges.
Cisneros: bonds and dozens of small stock trades
Cisneros’s report, digitally signed Nov. 10, lists 34 purchases and 30 sales (12 of them partial) dated Oct. 6 to Nov. 4, in accounts held by the 150 Main Street Trust at Bank of America and Wells Fargo Advisors. Each new transaction carries a notification date of Nov. 9, and each was reported within 45 days of the trade date, the deadline under the STOCK Act.
Most of the money is in municipal bonds. Seven bond transactions account for $1,250,007 to $2,600,000 of the report’s total of $1,447,064 to $3,730,000. The 57 stock transactions add up to $197,057 to $1,130,000, and 52 of the report’s 64 new lines fall in the lowest reporting range, $1,001 to $15,000.
| Asset | Type | Date | Reported value |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Community Choice Financing Authority revenue bonds | Purchase | Oct. 19 | $250,001–$500,000 |
| California Health Facilities Financing Authority revenue bonds | Purchase | Oct. 23 | $250,001–$500,000 |
| San Ramon Valley (Calif.) Fire Protection District certificates of participation | Purchase | Nov. 4 | $250,001–$500,000 |
| Wisconsin State Health & Educational Facilities Authority revenue bonds | Sale | Oct. 9 | $250,001–$500,000 |
| Milwaukee general obligation promissory notes | Sale | Oct. 13 | $100,001–$250,000 |
| San Mateo Foster City (Calif.) Public Financing Authority revenue bonds | Sale | Oct. 27 | $100,001–$250,000 |
| Mobility Global Inc. common stock (MBGL) | Purchase | Oct. 15 | $50,001–$100,000 |
| New York Liberty Development Corp. revenue bonds | Partial sale | Oct. 13 | $50,001–$100,000 |
| Strategy Inc. Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred (STRC) | Sale | Oct. 15 | $50,001–$100,000 |
The stock trades range from Applovin, which he sold in two transactions, to argenx, which he bought three times in October. The report also contains one amended line for a June 5 purchase of the Strategy preferred shares, valued at $15,001 to $50,000, which is marked “Amended” on the form rather than as a new transaction. We did not count it in the totals.
With the new filing, Cisneros has reported 1,004 transactions in e-filed reports this year, by an Inquisitor count of Clerk filings that removes duplicate entries. That is up from 940 when the Inquisitor reviewed this year’s filings on Nov. 10. He sits on the House Armed Services and Small Business committees, according to the Clerk’s member data.
Fleischmann: seven fund trades on paper
Fleischmann, a Republican who chairs the House Appropriations subcommittee on energy and water development, filed a two-page paper report that the Clerk’s Legislative Resource Center stamped as hand-delivered on Nov. 10. It lists seven joint transactions on Oct. 22, each valued at $1,001 to $15,000, with a notification date of Nov. 1.
He reported buying shares of the iShares 10-20 Year Treasury Bond ETF, the SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF and the SPDR S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF. He reported selling the iShares Core MSCI Europe ETF, the SPDR S&P 500 Growth ETF, an SPDR intermediate-term Treasury ETF and the Energy Select Sector SPDR fund. Together the seven trades are valued at $7,007 to $105,000.
Johnson: another Warner Bros. Discovery cash-out
Johnson, a Democrat, reported a single sale of Warner Bros. Discovery Series A common stock from a joint Merrill Lynch account, valued at $1,001 to $15,000. The report gives the transaction date as Oct. 7 and the notification date as Nov. 9.
Johnson is the third House member to report Warner Bros. Discovery shares leaving a family account on Oct. 7, after Reps. Nancy Pelosi and David Kustoff, the Inquisitor reported Nov. 11. Paramount Skydance said it completed its cash acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Oct. 6, converting each share into the right to receive cash. Johnson’s report, unlike the other two, does not describe the sale.
The rules
House members must report most purchases, sales and exchanges of stocks, bonds and other securities worth more than $1,000 by themselves, their spouses and dependent children within 30 days of being notified of a transaction and no later than 45 days after it, according to House Ethics Committee guidance on the STOCK Act. Members may file electronically or on paper. Nothing in the three filings indicates wrongdoing, and the Inquisitor makes no such allegation.
Cisneros has previously reported hundreds of trades in the same trust accounts. The 45th day after the Oct. 6 merger closing falls on Nov. 20, so more members’ Warner Bros. Discovery entries may still appear in the Clerk’s index.
Featured photo: Rep. Gil Cisneros (D-Calif.) in an official 119th Congress portrait. (House Creative Services / public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; cropped)
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