Within a month of taking office in January 2025, U.S. Rep. David Taylor bought at least $1,000 in shares of both Visa and JPMorgan Chase, expanding an already vast portfolio.
Since then, the Cincinnati-area Republican has executed 132 more stock trades – buying and selling – of $1,000 or more in his first 14 months in Congress, according to trading disclosures required of federal lawmakers.
That includes 59 trades so far in 2026, buying and selling shares in companies in the tech, transportation, health care, utilities and other sectors, according to a compilation of his trading disclosures analyzed by Signal Statewide.
The total volume of Taylor’s trading (the sum of all buying and selling) so far this year is between about $100,000 and $1 million – lawmakers are required to disclose stock trades only within a broad range. Most of Taylor’s buying and selling was in volumes between $1,000 and $15,000 per trade.
Taylor, whose district stretches across southern Ohio from Cincinnati to Marietta, trades stock far more often than Ohio’s other congressional delegates. Looking across the 538 members of the U.S. House and Senate, Taylor is the 43rd biggest trader by volume since he was sworn in, according to Capitol Trades, a website that logs disclosures from federal lawmakers. That’s about the top 8%.
The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012 prohibits lawmakers from trading stocks based on material, non-public information, and it requires them to disclose most trades. The publicized trading activity from other members of Congress has drawn suspicions that lawmakers trade on inside information unavailable to ordinary investors. Some members of Congress have offered legislation to prohibit lawmakers from trading altogether, though none have passed.
Taylor didn’t respond to phone calls and emails to his office about his trading activity or whether he would support a proposal to prohibit members of Congress from buying or selling securities.
As a member of Congress, Taylor sits on the Agriculture as well as the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Some of his trading involves shares with companies with business before the transportation panel, like Parker Hannifin or Eaton Corp.
Some of the companies he’s invested in (along with Parker Hannifin and Eaton) are based in Ohio like American Electric Power, Procter & Gamble, Kroger, Marathon Petroleum and RPM International. He also disclosed buying and selling tech stocks like Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Broadcom, IBM, Microsoft and Salesforce.
The only member of Congress from Ohio who traded more than Taylor last year is Rep. Greg Landsman, a Cincinnati district Democrat who represents an adjoining district. Landsman has faced controversy over the belated disclosure of his millions in trades. Last year, Landsman announced he’d be selling off his portfolio and moving it into mutual funds and other instruments where he wouldn’t directly control the investments. Landsman also announced his support of legislation to ban members of Congress from trading as a means to restore a faltering public trust.
“Some lawmakers have used insider information to gain financially and have been convicted in the past,” Landsman said in an op-ed. “It’s wrong, and with reforms, we can fix this and begin to rebuild trust.”
A spokesperson for Landsman noted that the congressman’s 2024 trading volume was inflated by his divestment of his individual stock holdings.
Who is David Taylor?
Taylor previously worked as a prosecutor in Clermont County, according to his congressional biography.
From there, he went to work for his family’s business, Sardinia Ready Mix. His financial disclosure statement values the business between $5 million and $25 million, and shows it paid him at least $1 million in income before he joined Congress.
His office drew unflattering attention last year when U.S. Capitol Police were called about an American flag altered to include a swastika that was displayed in his office and spotted on a Zoom call, Politico reports. He later said the flag was a ‘ruse’ circulated by a third-party group to embarrass Republicans via an image that would be seen on webcams but not by the naked eye.
This article was updated with comment from U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman’s office.