Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) has repeatedly argued that members of Congress should not be allowed to trade individual stocks, saying public service should not be used for personal financial gain.

“We’re not here to get rich,” Perez said in a January 2025 video promoting legislation to prohibit members of Congress from trading individual stocks. “I also think it’s really important that members of Congress and their spouses are not trading individual stocks. It doesn’t make sense to me that we’re currently able to do that. I don’t do it.”

Perez and Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) introduced the bipartisan No Corruption in Government Act in January 2025, which sought to prohibit members of Congress and their spouses from holding or trading individual stocks. Perez had also supported similar legislation in 2023.

Her financial disclosure history, however, contains several changes involving individual stocks. In a June 2022 candidate disclosure, Perez reported owning between $1,001 and $15,000 in Robinhood Markets stock and receiving between $1,001 and $2,500 in capital gains and dividends from the investment.

An amended candidate disclosure filed in February 2023 listed Amazon and Tesla holdings valued between $1,001 and $15,000 each, even though neither appeared on the original June 2022 filing. The amended report also no longer listed the previously disclosed Robinhood holding. The records cited in the reporting do not establish when or whether Perez sold those shares.

The February 2023 filing listed capital gains and dividends associated with Tesla but did not list income associated with the Amazon position. A subsequent new-filer report filed in May 2023 disclosed between $201 and $1,000 in capital gains from Apple stock during 2022, although Apple had not appeared as an asset on either of the earlier candidate filings.

Those discrepancies do not, by themselves, establish a violation of federal disclosure requirements. House financial disclosure rules require members and candidates to report specified investment assets and income, while separate periodic transaction reports can be required for certain purchases and sales exceeding $1,000. The House Clerk maintains the official financial disclosure database.

The Amazon holding presents an additional question. Perez's February 2023 amended filing listed Amazon stock worth between $1,001 and $15,000, but Amazon did not appear on her subsequent 2023 or 2024 annual financial disclosures. The records cited in the reporting also do not identify a periodic transaction report documenting a sale of those shares.

That leaves the precise disposition of the Amazon position unclear from the records examined. If the shares were sold, the timing and amount of the transaction would determine whether a separate transaction report was required. If they were retained, their absence from later annual disclosures would require an explanation of the discrepancy.

The questions surrounding the filings come as Perez continues to advocate restrictions on congressional stock trading. Her 2025 legislation argued that members and their spouses should be prohibited from holding or trading individual stocks, and her office cited existing STOCK Act disclosure requirements when promoting the measure.

The House Clerk's database currently contains Perez's financial disclosure filings covering her time as a candidate and member of Congress. The records are public documents required under federal financial disclosure laws, but determining whether any particular discrepancy constitutes a violation would require reviewing the underlying filings, transaction dates, and applicable reporting requirements.