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Diana Harshbarger

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Diana Harshbarger

Member of Congress, Tennessee 1st
Congressional transaction reports, roll-call votes

Lifetime record

No receipts yet. The record opens the day their words and a document first meet.

The record as a path

Diana Harshbarger
Statements we checked1

What the colours mean

Each root, and the card it starts from

  • RoutineThe gap exists but means nothing. Most threads land here, and saying so is the point.
  • AlignedWords and filings point the same way, but nothing was promised.
  • KeptA checkable promise the filings confirm was honoured.
  • MissedA checkable promise with a deadline, and the deadline passed without it being met.
  • TellThe gap reveals something the words alone would not. Red stays rare on purpose.
  • Still openAn open question. It runs to the date something is due to settle it.
  • Open callA published forecast still running, scored at its deadline.
  • Call wonA finished call that was right. Blue, as on the board.
  • Call lostA finished call that was wrong. It stays on the board for good.

Each step along a root

  • SaidTheir own words: a post, a speech, an interview, a call.
  • TradeA buy or a sell in a disclosure report or a Form 4.
  • FilingAnother document on the public record.
  • Law or orderA vote, a bill, an executive order, a rule.
  • CourtA complaint, an order or a judgment.
  • DataAn official number: Treasury, Medicare, the Fed, an agency release.
  • EventSomething that happened and is on the record.
  • StockThe move since the thread opened. Green up, orange down.

Words are blue. Documents are grey and told apart by their icon. The last step takes the colour of the verdict, or of the question while it is still open. Nothing here claims one thing caused another: it is what followed, in order, each with its source.

No receipts on Diana Harshbarger yet. The file opens the day their words and filings first meet. Their disclosures are on the desk.

The playbook

We added her on the assumption that a pharmacist vice-chairing the Health Subcommittee would be trading pharmaceutical companies. We then read her filings, and she is not. Most of what she discloses is a municipal bond ladder: Denver, Louisiana, a Nevada airport authority, Texas cultural districts, Katy schools in Texas, Honolulu.

Three reports she hand-delivered on Oct 1, 2026 broke that picture. Alongside the usual bonds she bought into KKR Private Equity Conglomerate LLC at between $500,001 and $1,000,000, and Coatue Innovation Fund at between $250,001 and $500,000, both on Aug 26. Those are the two largest transactions we have read from her, they are several times the size of anything in the bond ladder, and they are not bonds. The page said for a month that she held almost no equities. Her own paperwork corrected that, which is the second time her filings have overruled what we wrote about her.

What the documents show instead is an energy overlap rather than a health one. Two of the holdings we have read are power bonds, Energy Northwest in Washington State and the Black Belt Energy Gas District in Alabama, and Energy Northwest is the largest single transaction in her August filing. She sits on Energy and Commerce, which is the committee with jurisdiction over exactly that. So the pairing to watch on her is not a drug company next to a health vote. It is a utility bond next to an energy vote.

Two things keep this honest. Municipal bonds move for reasons that have nothing to do with a view: they get called, they mature, a ladder rolls, a manager rebalances. And she files on paper, hand delivered to the Clerk, so her disclosures arrive as scans with no searchable text and have to be read as images. Neither fact is an obstacle. Both are reasons to slow down before calling anything a pattern.

What we're watching

  • Ongoing Her filings are scanned paper, so they must be read as page images from the Clerk PDF. No tracker parses these reliably, which is precisely why they are worth reading.
  • Ongoing Energy and Commerce votes on power, permitting and data-centre demand, set against her utility bond transactions in the same window. This is the real overlap, not health.
  • Answered, now watch for more ANSWERED Oct 9, 2026. We asked whether anything other than bonds would appear. On Aug 26 she bought KKR Private Equity Conglomerate ($500,001 to $1,000,000) and Coatue Innovation Fund ($250,001 to $500,000), disclosed Oct 1. Somebody is steering this portfolio. Watch whether more follows.
  • Before first receipt Baseline first. Establish what a routine month of her filings looks like before any verdict is attached to one.

Statement stream, awaiting a filing pair

  • Shameful that Senate Democrats BLOCKED the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act, which makes companies building data centers pay for their own power, not hardworking families.

    X, @RepHarshbarger, post 2105403238614982995, checked at source; the post continues past what is quoted here, Sep 30, 2026

    Her own words on data-centre power, which is the overlap this page says to watch: she sits on Energy and Commerce and her disclosures include power bonds. The vote she describes is Senate roll call 254, 57 to 43, where 43 of the 47 senators who caucus with the Democrats voted no and four voted yes. The filings that followed, hand-delivered Oct 1, do hold power bonds: Black Belt Energy Gas District bought Aug 19 and Energy Northwest bought Aug 31, each between $15,001 and $50,000. Both were bought weeks before she spoke and before the House vote, so the order runs buy, vote, speak, and the sums are small against the rest of her book. We are not calling that a receipt. A purchase or sale of power close to a vote or a statement still would be.

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