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Standing select committee of the United States Senate
The claim that U.S. Senators receive is not supported by the recent federal per-diem publications; current federal Meals & Incidental Expenses (M&IE) rates referenced in 2024–2026 updates are , typica...
U.S. senators’ foreign gifts and travel are documented across a small set of official disclosures: Senate Gift Rule/Outside Paid Travel filings maintained by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics and ...
Senate ethics rules treat travel or hospitality from foreign-linked entities—defined broadly to include foreign governments, registered foreign agents, and private sponsors that retain lobbyists—as gi...
Federal statutes, Senate Rules, and the Senate Select Committee on Ethics jointly regulate whether senators and their offices may accept gifts, travel or donations that are foreign-linked, require rep...
The authoritative public repositories for U.S. Senate financial and travel disclosures are the Senate Office of Public Records (OPR) and the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, which operates the eFD f...
Senate rules and federal statute permit Senators and Senate employees to accept certain items from foreign governments only within tightly prescribed limits and reporting requirements, with the Foreig...
A significant minority of U.S. senators hold financial ties to the fossil-fuel sector — watchdog analyses find at least 10 senators holding sizable “Big Oil” stock positions and broader surveys identi...
In 2024 reporting, several high‑profile congressional ethics probes focused on undisclosed or misreported outside income or other financial largesse — most materially the Senate Judiciary Committee’s ...
Recent reporting and official materials show the Senate enforces strict disclosure and outside-earnings limits — Senators whose pay equals or exceeds the 120% GS‑15 threshold ($150,160 for CY 2025) fa...
Many recent investigations and trackers show dozens of current members of Congress hold stock portfolios and make frequent trades that have, in aggregate, often outperformed major indexes — fueling bi...