Observed arrival · 2026-10-30
Hilltrace: congressional research for newsrooms
A newsroom research platform that gathers records on members of Congress, votes, campaign money, lobbying, spending, travel, and stock trades, linking each fact to a government source.
- For
- Newsroom researchers and reporting teams
- Worth noticing
- The site says trading signals are leads, not findings; its office-spending records do not name staff.
Field notes
The described source list includes Congress.gov, the Clerk of the House, the Secretary of the Senate, the FEC, lobbying disclosures, and SEC EDGAR. Member profiles are said to cover committee seats since 2013, while newsroom features include shared and private watchlists, alerts, encrypted notes, and CSV exports. The site presents trading signals as reporting leads rather than findings and says staff are not named in office-spending records.
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