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David Taylor

Member of Congress, Ohio 2nd
Congressional transaction reports, roll-call votes

Lifetime record

On record since Jul 2026, latest document Jul 2026

1 receipt
0% words held, 0 of 1 scored
2 days average gap, words to document
0 open watches

The record as a path

David Taylor
Cosponsored the ban on members buying stocks. His trust bought five two days after he voted for it.Tell
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 David Taylor yet. The file opens the day their words and filings first meet. Their disclosures are on the desk.

The playbook

He filed more transaction reports in 2026 than any other member of the House: thirteen by August 20, counted from the House Clerk's own annual index. That is the entire reason he is on this list, and it is worth being straightforward that it is a different reason from everybody else's.

The others are here because they talk constantly and file regularly. He is here because he files more than anyone, and he has a low national profile, which means the left-hand column is thin. A receipt needs both halves, so on him the paperwork will usually arrive with nothing to hold it against.

What that makes him is the control case. Thirteen filings from one member in eight months is a picture of what ordinary, heavy, unremarkable congressional trading actually looks like, and having that picture is what stops us calling a normal pattern extraordinary when we find it on someone famous. If a receipt ever does come from him it will be because a floor statement or a committee vote lined up with a transaction. Until then he is the yardstick, and being the yardstick is useful.

Receipt history

  1. 21 Cosponsored the ban on members buying stocks. His trust bought five two days after he voted for it. Jul 22, 2026 Primary verified tell

What we're watching

  • Ongoing Volume itself. Establish what thirteen filings in eight months actually consists of, as a baseline for reading every other member on the list.
  • Ongoing Any floor statement or committee vote that touches a sector appearing in his transaction reports.

Statement stream, awaiting a filing pair

  • House Republicans proudly passed it to keep energy costs low for American families, but Senate Democrats struck it down.

    X, @RepDaveTaylor, post 2105387826640572902, checked at source, Sep 30, 2026

    On the Ratepayer Protection Act. The House passed it 417 to 3, so nearly every Democrat there voted for it too. In the Senate it fell three short of 60, with four Democrats in favour. He is the control case, so this is logged for the baseline and nothing more.

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