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Peter Welch

Peter Welch Democrat · VT

Senate · in office · serving since 2007 · born May 2, 1947

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Transactions 85 across 24 filings
Securities traded 41 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $211,085 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 58 examine

Trading timeline

$15K $100K $1M $25M 2019 2020 2021 Apr 1, 2018 · Sale · RBC · $1,001 – $15,000Apr 10, 2018 · Sale · HUBB · $1,001 – $15,000Apr 17, 2018 · Sale · FDX · $1,001 – $15,000Apr 22, 2018 · Sale · STT · $1,001 – $15,000Apr 25, 2018 · Sale · CERN · $1,001 – $15,000Jul 16, 2018 · Purchase · VAIAF · $1,001 – $15,000Dec 13, 2018 · Purchase · $1,001 – $15,000Dec 18, 2018 · Purchase · FSLR · $1,001 – $15,000Dec 28, 2018 · 2 purchases · 2 securities · $1,001 – $15,000 eachJan 9, 2019 · Purchase · MDRX · $1,001 – $15,000Jan 18, 2019 · Sale · STT · $1,001 – $15,000Feb 19, 2019 · Sale · ORBK · $1,001 – $15,000Mar 18, 2019 · Purchase · $15,001+May 1, 2019 · Purchase · SPSC · $1,001 – $15,000May 2, 2019 · Purchase · MITK · $1,001 – $15,000May 6, 2019 · Purchase · TNC · $1,001 – $15,000May 9, 2019 · Sale · USB · $1,001 – $15,000May 23, 2019 · Purchase · A · $1,001 – $15,000May 29, 2019 · Sale · AMP · $1,001 – $15,000Jun 11, 2019 · Sale · USB · $1,001 – $15,000Jun 20, 2019 · Sale · IWM · $1,001 – $15,000Jul 1, 2019 · Sale · HUB.A · $1,001 – $15,000Jul 3, 2019 · Purchase · DBX · $1,001 – $15,000Jul 16, 2019 · Purchase · VAIAF · $1,001 – $15,000Aug 1, 2019 · Purchase · IWM · $1,001 – $15,000Aug 12, 2019 · Sale · IWM · $1,001 – $15,000Sep 11, 2019 · Purchase · IWM · $1,001 – $15,000Sep 12, 2019 · Sale · LNN · $1,001 – $15,000Sep 16, 2019 · Sale · UPS · $1,001 – $15,000Sep 24, 2019 · Purchase · $1,001 – $15,000Sep 27, 2019 · Sale · IWM · $1,001 – $15,000Oct 11, 2019 · Sale · MDRX · $1,001 – $15,000Oct 22, 2019 · Purchase · RGNX · $1,001 – $15,000Nov 8, 2019 · Sale · RGNX · $1,001 – $15,000Nov 22, 2019 · Purchase · GIS · $1,001 – $15,000Dec 3, 2019 · Sale · $1,001 – $15,000Feb 7, 2020 · Purchase · CTRCF · $1,001 – $15,000Feb 13, 2020 · Purchase · $1,001 – $15,000Feb 19, 2020 · Purchase · FTDR · $1,001 – $15,000Feb 27, 2020 · Purchase · QGEN · $1,001 – $15,000Feb 28, 2020 · Purchase · CHD · $1,001 – $15,000Mar 2, 2020 · Purchase · ED · $1,001 – $15,000Mar 9, 2020 · Purchase · MDT · $1,001 – $15,000Mar 13, 2020 · Sale · ED · $1,001 – $15,000Mar 16, 2020 · Sale · FTDR · $1,001 – $15,000Mar 17, 2020 · 2 sales · 2 securities · $1,001 – $15,000 eachMar 20, 2020 · Purchase · PYPL · $1,001 – $15,000Mar 23, 2020 · Sale · $15,001 – $50,000Mar 24, 2020 · Sale · QGEN · $1,001 – $15,000Apr 3, 2020 · Sale · MDT · $1,001 – $15,000Apr 9, 2020 · 2 sales · 2 securities · $1,001 – $15,000 eachApr 27, 2020 · Sale · PANW · $1,001 – $15,000Apr 30, 2020 · Sale · FSLR · $1,001 – $15,000May 8, 2020 · Sale · SPSC · $1,001 – $15,000May 14, 2020 · Sale · GIS · $1,001 – $15,000May 19, 2020 · Sale · SPSC · $1,001 – $15,000Jun 3, 2020 · Sale · BDN · $1,001 – $15,000Nov 16, 2020 · 2 sales · 2 securities · $1,001 – $15,000 eachNov 26, 2020 · Sale · CTRCF · $1,001 – $15,000Sep 2, 2021 · Sale · $1,001 – $15,000Sep 17, 2021 · Sale · XOM · $1,001 – $15,000Nov 3, 2021 · Sale · WFC · $1,001 – $15,000Nov 18, 2021 · 10 sales · 7 securities · $1,001 – $15,000 eachNov 18, 2021 · 5 sales · 5 securities · $15,001 – $50,000 eachNov 19, 2021 · Sale · $15,001 – $50,000Nov 26, 2021 · 2 sales · 2 securities · $1,001 – $15,000 eachNov 26, 2021 · Sale · UNP · $15,001 – $50,000

Purchases 26 Sales 59

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In plain language

Of 85 disclosed trades, 0 were flagged by the site's published rules.

None of these trades met the flagging rules. That is the ordinary result — most trades, by most members, are unremarkable.

Across the whole database, congressional trading beats the market by close to nothing on average, and only slightly more trades look unusual than chance alone would produce. Most members, most of the time, are unremarkable. That is the backdrop for anything you read here. A flag is a prompt to look at the record, never a finding about a person.

Campaign money 2028 cycle

Raised $549,572
From individuals $126,709
From PACs $79,610
Cash on hand $1,616,348

Campaign finance from the FEC, shown as context beside the trading record. We do not draw a line from any donor to any trade: the FEC's donor data cannot support that honestly, and inventing the link would be the kind of unsourced inference this site refuses. Read the two together and judge for yourself.

Seat & district history

SeatCongressesServedChange
Senator, VT 118th 2023–2029 moved to the Senate
VT at-large 110th–117th 2007–2023 first seat

District numbers change when a state is redistricted, so a renumbering here is not necessarily a move — the boundaries were redrawn around the member. Term records come from the public congress-legislators dataset.

Committees

Current (119th Congress)

CommitteePositionRankSideJurisdiction
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Member 8 minority record
Senate Committee on Finance Member 13 minority record
Senate Committee on Rules and Administration Member 8 minority record
Senate Committee on the Judiciary Member 9 minority record

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thJoint Economic Committee Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Rules and Administration Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on the Judiciary Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
117thHouse Committee on Energy and Commerce Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
117thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
117thHouse Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Member 2021-07 → 2022-11
116thHouse Committee on Energy and Commerce Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thHouse Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Member 2019-02 → 2020-12
115thHouse Committee on Energy and Commerce Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 2017-03 → 2018-12
114thHouse Committee on Energy and Commerce Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
113thHouse Committee on Agriculture Member 2013-01 → 2013-02
113thHouse Committee on Energy and Commerce Member 2013-03 → 2014-11
113thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 2013-01 → 2014-11
112thHouse Committee on Agriculture Member 2012-11 → 2012-11
112thHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 2012-11 → 2012-11

The published roster covers only the sitting Congress, so earlier assignments are reconstructed from the dated version history of that same public dataset, sampled monthly back to 2012. Observed is the span across which we actually saw the seat held — it is evidence of tenure, not a precise start and end date, and a seat that changed hands between two monthly samples may be dated up to a month out. Committees with no history recorded are absent because no snapshot showed them, which is not evidence the member held no seat.

Currently trading — last 6 months

0 securities

No transactions disclosed in the last 6 months.

Previously traded

41 securities

Securities with disclosed transactions before this window and none since. A security leaving this list means no reported trading — not that a position was closed. Holdings themselves are not disclosed in these filings.

TickerSecuritySectorTrades Buys / SellsTotal valueActive
UNP Union Pacific Corporation Common Stock … Transportation 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2021-11 → 2021-11
IBM International Business Machines Corpora… Technology Hardware 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2021-11 → 2021-11
GE General Electric Company Electronics 2 0 / 2 $16,001 2021-11 → 2021-11
UN The Unilever Group — 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2021-11 → 2021-11
CERN Cerner Corporation (CERN) — 2 0 / 2 $16,001 2018-04 → 2021-11
VAIAF 2000052768 Vaisala Oy Ordinary Shares -… — 3 2 / 1 $48,502 2018-07 → 2021-11
CHD Church & Dwight Company, Inc. Common St… Chemicals 2 1 / 1 $40,501 2020-02 → 2021-11
KUBTY Kubota Corporation (KUBTY) — 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2018-12 → 2021-11
CSCO Cisco Systems Inc Technology Hardware 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2021-11 → 2021-11
KYOCF Kyocera Corp Ordinary Shares (KYOCF) Semiconductors 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2021-11 → 2021-11
MITK Mitek Systems, Inc. (MITK) Technology Hardware 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2019-05 → 2021-11
TNC Tennant Company Common Stock (TNC) Other 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2019-05 → 2021-11
USB U.S. Bancorp Common Stock Banking 3 0 / 3 $48,502 2019-05 → 2021-11
A Agilent Technologies, Inc. Common Stock Medical Devices 3 1 / 2 $24,002 2019-05 → 2021-11
WFC Wells Fargo & Company Common Stock (WFC) Banking 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2021-11 → 2021-11
XOM Exxon Mobil Corp Oil & Gas 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2021-09 → 2021-09
CTRCF Centrotec Sustainable Ag, brilon Ordina… — 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2020-02 → 2020-11
UPS United Parcel Service, Inc. Common Stoc… Transportation 2 0 / 2 $16,001 2019-09 → 2020-11
DBX Dropbox, Inc. - Class A Common Stock (D… Software & IT Services 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2019-07 → 2020-11
BDN Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN) Investment Funds 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2020-06 → 2020-06
SPSC S Commerce, Inc. (SPSC) Software & IT Services 3 1 / 2 $24,002 2019-05 → 2020-05
GIS General Mills, Inc. Common Stock Food & Beverage 3 1 / 2 $24,002 2019-11 → 2020-05
FSLR First Solar, Inc. - Common Stock (FSLR) Semiconductors 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2018-12 → 2020-04
PANW Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Common Stock Technology Hardware 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2020-04 → 2020-04
SCHW Charles Schwab Corporation (SCHW) Capital Markets 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2018-12 → 2020-04
MDT Medtronic plc. Ordinary Shares (MDT) Medical Devices 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2020-03 → 2020-04
QGEN Qiagen N.V. Common Shares (QgEN) Pharmaceuticals & Biotech 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2020-02 → 2020-03
PYPL Paypal Holdings Business Services 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2020-03 → 2020-03
ED Consolidated Edison, Inc. Common Stock … Utilities 3 1 / 2 $24,002 2020-03 → 2020-03
FTDR frontdoor, inc. (FTDR) Business Services 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2020-02 → 2020-03
RGNX REgENXbIo Inc. (RgNX) Pharmaceuticals & Biotech 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2019-10 → 2019-11
MDRX allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. -… — 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2019-01 → 2019-10
IWM iShares Russell 2000 ETF — 5 2 / 3 $40,003 2019-06 → 2019-09
LNN Lindsay Corporation (LNN) Industrials 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2019-09 → 2019-09
HUB.A Hubbell Inc a (HUb.a) — 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2019-07 → 2019-07
AMP Ameriprise Financial, Inc. Common Stock… Capital Markets 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2019-05 → 2019-05
ORBK orbotech Ltd. - ordinary Shares (oRbK) — 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2019-02 → 2019-02
STT State Street Corporation Common Stock (… Banking 2 0 / 2 $16,001 2018-04 → 2019-01
FDX FedEx Corporation Common Stock (FDX) Transportation 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2018-04 → 2018-04
HUBB Hubbell Inc Common Stock Electronics 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2018-04 → 2018-04
RBC RBC Bearings Incorporated Common Stock … Industrials 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2018-04 → 2018-04

The Spread by year

YearSpreadTrades pricedDisclosed value
2021 -4.5% 11 $186,006
2020 +10.1% 13 $104,007
2019 +7.0% 12 $96,006
2018 +7.1% 6 $48,003

Transaction timing versus the market over 90 trading days — not portfolio return, which these filings cannot support. See Methodology and the Scoreboard for the population baseline.

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2021-11-26 UNP Union Pacific Corporation (UNP) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2021-11-26 IBM International business Machines Corporation (IbM) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-11-26 GE general Electric Company (gE) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-11-19 — SwedenCare Ab sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2021-11-18 VAIAF Vaisala Oy Ordinary Shares -A- (VAIAF) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2021-11-18 UN Unilever NV (UN) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2021-11-18 USB U.S. bancorp (USb) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2021-11-18 TNC Tennant Company (TNC) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-11-18 — Qualcomm sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-11-18 — PayPal Holdings, Inc. sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-11-18 MITK Mitek Systems, Inc. (MITK) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-11-18 KYOCF Kyocera Corp Ordinary Shares (KYOCF) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-11-18 KUBTY Kubota Corporation (KUbTY) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-11-18 GE general Electric Company (gE) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-11-18 CSCO Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) FILINg STATUS: New sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2021-11-18 CHD Church & dwight Company, Inc. (CHd) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2021-11-18 CERN Cerner Corporation (CERN) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-11-18 — Autodesk sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-11-18 A Agilent Technologies, Inc. (A) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-11-03 WFC Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-09-17 XOM Exxon mobil Corporation (XOm) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2021-09-02 — Cloetta Ab sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-11-26 CTRCF Centrotec Sustainable Ag, brilon Ordinary Shares (CTRCF) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-11-16 UPS United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-11-16 DBX Dropbox, Inc. - Class A (DbX) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-06-03 BDN brandywine Realty Trust (bDN) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-05-19 SPSC S Commerce, Inc. (SPSC) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2020-05-14 GIS general Mills, Inc. (gIS) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-05-08 SPSC S Commerce, Inc. (SPSC) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2020-04-30 FSLR First Solar, Inc. (FSLR) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-04-27 PANW Palo alto Networks, Inc. (PaNW) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-04-09 SCHW Charles Schwab Corporation (SCHW) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-04-09 A agilent Technologies, Inc. (a) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-04-03 MDT Medtronic plc. ordinary Shares (MDT) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-03-24 QGEN Qiagen N.V. Common Shares (QgEN) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-03-23 — US Treasury Note sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-03-20 PYPL PayPal Holdings, Inc. (PYPL) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-03-17 ED Consolidated Edison, Inc. (ED) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-03-17 GIS general Mills, Inc. (gIS) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-03-16 FTDR frontdoor, inc. (FTDR) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-03-13 ED Consolidated Edison, Inc. (ED) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-03-09 MDT Medtronic plc. ordinary Shares (MDT) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-03-02 ED Consolidated Edison, Inc. (ED) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-02-28 CHD Church & Dwight Company, Inc. (CHD) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-02-27 QGEN Qiagen N.V. Common Shares (QgEN) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-02-19 FTDR frontdoor, inc. (FTDR) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-02-13 — SwedenCare ab buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-02-07 CTRCF Centrotec Sustainable ag, brilon ordinary Shares (CTRCF) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-12-03 — US Treasury bond sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-11-22 GIS general Mills, Inc. (gIS) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-11-08 RGNX REgENXbIo Inc. (RgNX) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-10-22 RGNX REgENXbIo Inc. (RgNX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-10-11 MDRX allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. - common stock (MDRX) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-09-27 IWM iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-09-24 — Cloetta ab buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-09-16 UPS United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-09-12 LNN Lindsay Corporation (LNN) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-09-11 IWM iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-08-12 IWM iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-08-01 IWM iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-07-16 VAIAF 2000052768 Vaisala Oy Ordinary Shares -A- (VAIAF) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-07-03 DBX Dropbox, Inc. - Class a (DbX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-07-01 HUB.A Hubbell Inc a (HUb.a) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-06-20 IWM iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-06-11 USB U.S. bancorp (USb) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-05-29 AMP ameriprise Financial, Inc. (aMP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-05-23 A agilent Technologies, Inc. (a) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-05-09 USB U.S. bancorp (USb) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-05-06 TNC Tennant Company (TNC) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-05-02 MITK Mitek Systems, Inc. (MITK) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-05-01 SPSC S Commerce, Inc. (SPSC) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2019-03-18 — U.S. Treasury Note buy $15,001+ self
2019-02-19 ORBK orbotech Ltd. - ordinary Shares (oRbK) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-01-18 STT State Street Corporation (STT) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-01-09 MDRX allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. - common stock (MDRX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-28 KUBTY Kubota Corporation (KUbTY) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-28 SCHW Charles Schwab Corporation (SCHW) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-18 FSLR First Solar, Inc. (FSLR) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-13 — PerkinElmer, Inc buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-07-16 VAIAF Vaisala oy ordinary Shares -a- (VaIaF) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-04-25 CERN Cerner Corporation (CERN) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-04-22 STT State Street Corporation (STT) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-04-17 FDX FedEx Corporation (FDX) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-04-10 HUBB Hubbell Inc (HUbb) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-04-01 RBC Regal beloit Corporation (RbC) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self