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Rep. Scott H. Peters files a Periodic Transaction Report

Scott H. Peters (CA50) filed a Periodic Transaction Report. No individually listed stock trades could be read from it, so see the original filing.

ORIGINAL FILING ↗ALL FILINGS BY SCOTT H. PETERS →CONGRESS TRADES DASHBOARD →

Amounts are the ranges members report. Rows are read automatically from the filing; a trade split across a page break can be missed, so the original filing is the full record.

What This Means

Congressional periodic transaction reports are public disclosures of stock trades by members of Congress and their spouses, filed under the STOCK Act framework. These filings provide transparency into lawmakers' equity transactions and can reveal trading patterns or potential conflicts of interest, though the reports themselves do not indicate whether trades were timed around legislative activity or material nonpublic information.

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FILING1 report

How This Could Play Out

First assessed Oct 1

Resolved

UNLIKELY

If scrutiny of the filing reveals a genuine conflict of interest or violation of the STOCK Act, regulatory or ethics action could create a brief reputational cost to Peters but would have negligible direct market impact unless it involved material nonpublic information about a specific security.

Status quo

LIKELY

The filing remains a routine disclosure with no follow-up investigation or media attention, in which case it functions as intended under the STOCK Act—a transparency mechanism with no market-moving consequences.

Worsens

POSSIBLE

If the timing or pattern of trades (particularly the large Treasury purchases and municipal bond sales) triggers an ethics investigation or media narrative linking them to legislative activity or advance knowledge, it could amplify broader concerns about congressional trading practices and put pressure on sentiment around financial-sector regulation or STOCK Act reform.

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