A newly filed Periodic Transaction Report shows that a dependent child of Rep. August Lee Pfluger (R-Texas) was involved in an exchange of Charter Communications, Inc. Class A Common Stock (CHTR), held through a CP Roth IRA. The transaction, dated August 20, 2026, falls in the disclosed value range of $1,001 to $15,000, according to the filing submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives under the STOCK Act.
The filer’s own description of the transaction reads: ‘Shares received thru merger.’ That language points to a corporate action rather than an open-market trade decision — a merger-related share exchange, where an investor’s original holding is converted or replaced with new shares as part of a corporate restructuring. Our internal classification tags this filing as a ‘congress exchange,’ distinguishing it from a standard purchase or sale.
A Notable Cross-Signal from a Company Insider
This disclosure lands alongside a separate, unrelated filing that adds context to the broader picture around CHTR activity. Liberty Broadband Corp, a company insider with reporting obligations of its own, sold CHTR shares on August 19, 2026 — just one day before the transaction date listed in the Pfluger family filing. The insider sale was reported at a $0 value, and it occurred within the same 30-day window as this congressional disclosure.
Liberty Broadband has long held a substantial stake in Charter Communications, and insider transactions tied to that relationship are disclosed separately under SEC rules for corporate insiders, distinct from the STOCK Act framework that governs disclosures by members of Congress and their families. The proximity of these two filings — one from a corporate insider, one from a congressional household — is the kind of pattern whoisbuyingnow.com exists to surface, even when no direct connection between the two events is established in the public record.
It’s worth noting that mergers and related corporate actions, such as the one referenced in the Pfluger filing’s description, can trigger automatic share conversions for existing shareholders regardless of personal trading decisions. This distinguishes an ‘exchange’ transaction from a discretionary buy or sell order placed by an investor or their broker.
Members of Congress and their immediate family members are required under the STOCK Act to publicly disclose transactions like this one within 45 days. The law is designed to promote transparency around potential conflicts of interest, not to suggest that any individual transaction was improper. This report reflects only what is stated in the public filing; no additional details about the underlying merger or the family’s broader investment strategy were included in the disclosure.