Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez's Stock Disclosures Under Scrutiny Amid Congressional Trading Ban Push
Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Washougal) is facing questions regarding discrepancies in her financial disclosures related to stock holdings. These questions arise as she has actively co-sponsored legislation to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks. In January 2023, she co-sponsored the TRUST in Congress Act, aiming to mandate blind trusts for congressional members' investments. Less than six weeks later, she amended her candidate financial disclosure to include Amazon and Tesla shares that were not present in her original filing. Subsequent filings also showed Apple stock appearing and Robinhood shares disappearing, with Amazon shares later missing from annual reports without a clear record of sale. Federal disclosure laws require members to report investment assets over $1,000 or those generating over $200 in unearned income, and transactions over $1,000 within specific timeframes. These disclosure issues are surfacing as she is in a competitive race to retain her 3rd Congres...
