Pattern file
Mike Kelly
Member of Congress, Pennsylvania 16th
Congressional transaction reports, roll-call votes
Lifetime record
On record since Oct 2026, latest document Aug 2026
The record as a path
Mike KellyNo receipts on Mike Kelly yet. The file opens the day their words and filings first meet. Their disclosures are on the desk.
The playbook
He chairs the Tax Subcommittee of Ways and Means, which is the panel that writes the tax code. That single fact is why he is here. Of everyone currently filing transaction reports, nobody has a tighter overlap between what they legislate on and what their disclosures cover, and overlap is what makes a trade legible rather than merely interesting.
He filed nine transaction reports in 2026 by the end of August, which we counted from the House Clerk's own annual index rather than from a tracker. That is a steady enough cadence to build a pattern from, and the cadence itself matters: a member who files rarely gives you nothing to compare.
The honest caveat, and it applies to every member on this list. A trade in an industry you legislate on is not evidence of anything on its own. Congress is full of index funds, blind arrangements, spousal accounts and long-standing positions that predate a committee assignment. What makes a receipt is a dated statement or vote on one side and a dated transaction on the other, close enough together that a reader can see the distance for themselves. Absent that, this is just a list of trades, and lists of trades already exist for free.
Receipt history
- 26 Welcomed the Energy Secretary to the Cleveland-Cliffs plant in Butler. In 2025 the Ethics Committee said he and his wife should sell the company's shares before he acts for it again; his latest annual form still lists them. Oct 6, 2026 tell
- 24 Said the seniors' deduction "saved them an average of $7,500". The Treasury figure he cited is the average deduction, not the saving. Oct 8, 2026 tell
What we're watching
- Ongoing Transaction reports as they land, read from the primary PDF at the House Clerk rather than from any tracker.
- Ongoing Statements or votes on tax measures set against transactions in the sectors those measures touch. The subcommittee chairmanship is what makes this legible.
- Before first receipt Baseline first. Before any verdict, establish what a routine month of his filings looks like, so a divergence means something.
Statement stream, awaiting a filing pair
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The Working Families Tax Cuts DOUBLED the standard deduction for hardworking Pennsylvania families.
A claim of fact about what the law did. The picture with the post says "permanently doubled" and cites "Treasury.Gov, July 2026", and the Treasury's release of Jul 2 uses the same words: "Over 127 million filers (90% of all tax filers) have claimed the permanently doubled standard deduction". The post's own sentence drops "permanently". The IRS puts the deduction under the law at $15,750 for a single filer and $31,500 for a married couple in 2025, rising to $16,100 and $32,200 in 2026. What would test the word doubled: the amount the law started from, in the statute itself.
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Pennsylvania families shouldn't be footing the bill to power data centers. This legislation puts local families first and reestablishes commonsense energy policy in the United States.
A stated position on who pays for data-centre power, next to a vote that matches it. What would test it further: any transaction report showing a utility, power or data-centre holding. His reports so far are a municipal bond ladder in a spouse's trust, including a California Community Choice clean-energy bond bought Jul 17, 2026, which is an electricity supplier but not a data-centre position.
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More than 35 million seniors claimed the enhanced deduction for seniors this year thanks to the Working Families Tax Cuts. The policy saved them an average of $7,500 in 2026.
The picture with the post cites "Treasury.Gov, July 2026". The Treasury's release of Jul 2 says: "Over 35 million seniors have claimed the Enhanced Deduction for Seniors, with an average deduction of over $7,500." A deduction comes off income before tax is worked out. It is not the tax saved. The same release puts the average tax cut at over $815 for filers earning $50,000 to $100,000 and over $1,250 for those earning $100,000 to $200,000. The IRS gives the deduction as $6,000 a person, $12,000 for a couple who both qualify. His 35 million and his 94 percent match the Treasury. "Saved" does not. He chairs the Ways and Means subcommittee on tax.
