A new disclosure filed with the U.S. House of Representatives shows Rep. Tim Walberg, joined by his spouse in a jointly-held account, purchased shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) on February 7, 2025. The transaction falls in the $1,001 to $15,000 range, the smallest bracket used in these Periodic Transaction Reports, and is logged in our system as a congress buy.
What stands out here isn’t the size of the trade but the timeline. The STOCK Act requires members of Congress to disclose transactions like this within 45 days. This one was filed 476 days after the purchase date, well past that window. We’re noting the delay as a factual part of the record, not as a judgment on why it happened. Late filings are not uncommon in these disclosures, and the STOCK Act itself does not treat a missed deadline as evidence of wrongdoing, just a reporting requirement that wasn’t met on time.
Why This Shows Up on Trackers Like Ours
Sites like whoisbuyingnow.com exist because plenty of readers search for trackers that follow congress stock trades, curious what elected officials are doing with their portfolios. It’s worth being clear about what these filings are and aren’t. A Periodic Transaction Report tells you a trade happened, in a broad dollar range, on a specific date. It doesn’t tell you why the purchase was made, whether it was part of a long-term plan, or whether any nonpublic information was involved. People sometimes ask if this amounts to congress being allowed to do insider trading — the STOCK Act was actually passed specifically to prohibit that and to force this kind of disclosure so trades are visible to the public. Filing the paperwork, even late, is Walberg meeting that legal disclosure obligation, not an indication of any violation.
For readers comparing how different kinds of filings work, it can help to look at other disclosure types we track. Institutional filers, for example, report their holdings on a different schedule entirely through 13F filings, like the quarterly portfolio moves we follow for ING Groep NV. Those reports show snapshots of fund holdings once a quarter, whereas congressional Periodic Transaction Reports are meant to reflect individual trades tied to a specific date, disclosed on a much tighter (if not always honored) timeline.
As it stands, the record shows a single AMZN purchase in a joint account, valued at no more than $15,000, made in early February 2025 and reported to the public well over a year later. No further transactions tied to this filing are included in the disclosure.