Michael T. McCaul
Republican House (TX) Committee Conflict

Michael T. McCaul × XHR

Xenia Hotels & Resorts Inc (Real Estate)

90
Disclosed Trades
$104K
Total Buys
5y
Stacking
The Conflict

90 Disclosures in a Lodging REIT, Repeated Late Filings

Rep. Michael McCaul has disclosed 90 trades in Xenia Hotels and Resorts, a lodging-focused real estate investment trust, across multiple years. The sheer volume of transactions in a single hospitality REIT is notable on its own. More structurally, several disclosure batches arrived well past the 30-day internal flag threshold, and a cluster of March 2020 buys spanning consecutive trading days was filed collectively two months later, each exceeding the STOCK Act's 45-day statutory window. No committee overlap has been established from available data, so the pattern of disclosure timing across 90 trades is the primary analytical signal.

Xenia Hotels and Resorts is a lodging REIT that owns and operates upscale hotel properties across the United States. Its revenues depend on travel demand and macroeconomic conditions; federal policy on travel, tourism, and hospitality relief programs can materially affect its financial outlook.

Disclosure Pattern
Across 90 disclosed trades in XHR, Rep. McCaul's filing record shows repeated late disclosures, including multiple filings that exceeded the STOCK Act's 45-day statutory deadline. The March 2020 buy cluster is especially notable for collectively late batch filing.

Trade-by-trade conflict scoring

Showing the 10 most recent of 90 disclosed trades. Each is scored against five rule-based signals.

Trade Date
Mar 4, 2019
Size
$1K
Conflict Score
2 Medium
Committee Overlap
no fire
Pre-Vote Timing
no fire
Late Disclosure
+2 pts
Unusually Large
no fire
Member Cluster
no fire
Why each signal fired or did not
  • Committee Overlap: No reliable committee data is available to establish a plausible oversight link to hospitality REITs.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 57 days after the trade date, exceeding both the 30-day flag threshold and the 45-day STOCK Act statutory deadline.
  • Unusually Large: Trade size of $1,001 is far below the median of $15,001, at roughly 0.07x.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member traded XHR in the surrounding 14-day window, below the three-member threshold.
Analyst note

This March 4, 2019 buy of approximately $1,001 in Xenia Hotels and Resorts was filed on April 30, 2019, a delay of 57 days. That places it beyond the STOCK Act's 45-day statutory deadline. The trade size itself is minimal, at roughly 0.07 times McCaul's median trade size in this stock, suggesting it may be part of a systematic or incremental accumulation strategy rather than a high-conviction single position. No other members appear to have traded XHR in the adjacent 14-day window, so there is no clustering signal here. The primary concern with this trade is procedural: the late filing. When viewed alongside 90 total disclosures in this ticker, this represents one of several instances where McCaul's filings in XHR arrived after the statutory window. No committee overlap with the hospitality real estate sector has been established from available data.

Trade Date
Mar 5, 2019
Size
$1K
Conflict Score
0 Low
Committee Overlap
no fire
Pre-Vote Timing
no fire
Late Disclosure
no fire
Unusually Large
no fire
Member Cluster
no fire
Why each signal fired or did not
  • Committee Overlap: No reliable committee data is available to establish a plausible oversight link to hospitality REITs.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 21 days after the trade date, within the 30-day internal flag threshold.
  • Unusually Large: Trade size of $1,001 is far below the median of $15,001, at roughly 0.07x.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member traded XHR in the surrounding 14-day window, below the three-member threshold.
Analyst note

This March 5, 2019 buy of approximately $1,001 in Xenia Hotels and Resorts was disclosed on March 26, 2019, a 21-day turnaround that falls within Kapitol's 30-day flag threshold. This is one of the cleaner disclosures in the reviewed dataset, with no late-filing flag triggered. The trade occurred just one day after the prior flagged buy on March 4, 2019, suggesting a pattern of incremental, small-dollar accumulation in XHR across consecutive trading days. At 0.07 times the median trade size, this is not a high-dollar position. No member clustering was observed in the 14-day window. Across 90 total disclosed trades in this ticker, the occasional on-time filing like this one appears alongside a number of late filings, making this a notable exception rather than the norm. No committee jurisdiction over hospitality real estate has been established.

Trade Date
Dec 12, 2019
Size
$1K
Conflict Score
2 Medium
Committee Overlap
no fire
Pre-Vote Timing
no fire
Late Disclosure
+2 pts
Unusually Large
no fire
Member Cluster
no fire
Why each signal fired or did not
  • Committee Overlap: No reliable committee data is available to establish a plausible oversight link to hospitality REITs.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 48 days after the trade date, exceeding both the 30-day flag threshold and the 45-day STOCK Act statutory deadline.
  • Unusually Large: Trade size of $1,001 is far below the median of $15,001, at roughly 0.07x.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member traded XHR in the surrounding 14-day window, below the three-member threshold.
Analyst note

This December 12, 2019 sell of approximately $1,001 in Xenia Hotels and Resorts was not disclosed until January 29, 2020, a delay of 48 days. That places this filing past the STOCK Act's 45-day statutory deadline. The trade is a sell, occurring roughly three months before the COVID-19 pandemic began significantly affecting U.S. markets and hospitality stocks in particular. While the trade size is small at about 0.07 times the McCaul median for this ticker, the directional shift from accumulation to disposal is worth noting in context. No member clustering was observed in the adjacent window. Across 90 total disclosures in XHR, this sell represents an early exit from what was otherwise a period of accumulation, followed by more buying in early 2020. The late filing is the primary analytical signal here, with no committee overlap established.

Trade Date
Mar 3, 2020
Size
$1K
Conflict Score
2 Medium
Committee Overlap
no fire
Pre-Vote Timing
no fire
Late Disclosure
+2 pts
Unusually Large
no fire
Member Cluster
no fire
Why each signal fired or did not
  • Committee Overlap: No reliable committee data is available to establish a plausible oversight link to hospitality REITs.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 64 days after the trade date, exceeding both the 30-day flag threshold and the 45-day STOCK Act statutory deadline.
  • Unusually Large: Trade size of $1,001 is far below the median of $15,001, at roughly 0.07x.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member traded XHR in the surrounding 14-day window, below the three-member threshold.
Analyst note

This March 3, 2020 buy of approximately $1,001 in Xenia Hotels and Resorts was filed on May 6, 2020, a delay of 64 days. That is well past the STOCK Act's 45-day statutory deadline. This trade is the first in a run of consecutive daily buys in XHR during early March 2020, a period when U.S. equity markets were entering significant volatility tied to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitality stocks, including lodging REITs like Xenia, were particularly hard hit during this period. The trade size is minimal at approximately 0.07 times the median. All six buys in this March 2020 cluster were filed together on May 6, 2020, producing a batch of late disclosures each individually exceeding the statutory window. No member clustering signal fired, and no committee overlap with the real estate or hospitality sector has been established from available data.

Trade Date
Mar 4, 2020
Size
$1K
Conflict Score
2 Medium
Committee Overlap
no fire
Pre-Vote Timing
no fire
Late Disclosure
+2 pts
Unusually Large
no fire
Member Cluster
no fire
Why each signal fired or did not
  • Committee Overlap: No reliable committee data is available to establish a plausible oversight link to hospitality REITs.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 63 days after the trade date, exceeding both the 30-day flag threshold and the 45-day STOCK Act statutory deadline.
  • Unusually Large: Trade size of $1,001 is far below the median of $15,001, at roughly 0.07x.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member traded XHR in the surrounding 14-day window, below the three-member threshold.
Analyst note

This March 4, 2020 buy of approximately $1,001 in Xenia Hotels and Resorts was among the batch filed on May 6, 2020, resulting in a 63-day disclosure delay that exceeds the STOCK Act's 45-day statutory deadline. This is the second consecutive daily buy in a run that spans at least six trading days in early March 2020, during one of the sharpest market downturns in recent memory. The pattern suggests a dollar-cost averaging or systematic accumulation approach, buying incrementally into a declining hospitality REIT during a period of acute travel industry stress. Each individual trade in this cluster was filed late, which is the recurring analytical concern. The trade size remains minimal. No member clustering or committee overlap signals fired. Across 90 total disclosed trades in XHR, this cluster represents one of the densest activity periods in the disclosed record.

Trade Date
Mar 5, 2020
Size
$1K
Conflict Score
2 Medium
Committee Overlap
no fire
Pre-Vote Timing
no fire
Late Disclosure
+2 pts
Unusually Large
no fire
Member Cluster
no fire
Why each signal fired or did not
  • Committee Overlap: No reliable committee data is available to establish a plausible oversight link to hospitality REITs.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 62 days after the trade date, exceeding both the 30-day flag threshold and the 45-day STOCK Act statutory deadline.
  • Unusually Large: Trade size of $1,001 is far below the median of $15,001, at roughly 0.07x.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member traded XHR in the surrounding 14-day window, below the three-member threshold.
Analyst note

This March 5, 2020 buy of approximately $1,001 in Xenia Hotels and Resorts was disclosed on May 6, 2020, a 62-day delay that exceeds the STOCK Act's 45-day statutory deadline. This is the third in the consecutive-day buy sequence during early March 2020. The aggregate picture across this cluster is that multiple small buys were accumulated in a lodging REIT at a time when the hospitality sector was under extraordinary pressure, and all disclosures for the cluster were filed in a single batch two months later. The individual trade size is minimal, but the pattern of buying into a distressed sector and filing late collectively raises the disclosure timing flag. No committee overlap with hospitality or real estate has been established. The member clustering signal did not fire. This trade is best understood as part of the broader March 2020 accumulation pattern visible across the 90-trade disclosed record.

Trade Date
Mar 6, 2020
Size
$1K
Conflict Score
2 Medium
Committee Overlap
no fire
Pre-Vote Timing
no fire
Late Disclosure
+2 pts
Unusually Large
no fire
Member Cluster
no fire
Why each signal fired or did not
  • Committee Overlap: No reliable committee data is available to establish a plausible oversight link to hospitality REITs.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 61 days after the trade date, exceeding both the 30-day flag threshold and the 45-day STOCK Act statutory deadline.
  • Unusually Large: Trade size of $1,001 is far below the median of $15,001, at roughly 0.07x.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member traded XHR in the surrounding 14-day window, below the three-member threshold.
Analyst note

This March 6, 2020 buy of approximately $1,001 in Xenia Hotels and Resorts was part of the same batch filing on May 6, 2020, producing a 61-day disclosure delay beyond the STOCK Act's 45-day statutory deadline. By this point in the sequence, McCaul had executed at least four consecutive daily buys in XHR over a four-day span from March 3 through March 6, 2020. The scale of each individual purchase remains small, but the deliberate daily cadence and the collective late filing of this cluster are the notable features. Xenia Hotels and Resorts, as a lodging REIT, was acutely exposed to the COVID-19 disruption that was becoming increasingly apparent to markets during this week. No committee overlap with real estate or hospitality was established. No member clustering was observed. The disclosure timing pattern is the dominant signal across this group of trades.

Trade Date
Mar 9, 2020
Size
$1K
Conflict Score
2 Medium
Committee Overlap
no fire
Pre-Vote Timing
no fire
Late Disclosure
+2 pts
Unusually Large
no fire
Member Cluster
no fire
Why each signal fired or did not
  • Committee Overlap: No reliable committee data is available to establish a plausible oversight link to hospitality REITs.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 58 days after the trade date, exceeding both the 30-day flag threshold and the 45-day STOCK Act statutory deadline.
  • Unusually Large: Trade size of $1,001 is far below the median of $15,001, at roughly 0.07x.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member traded XHR in the surrounding 14-day window, below the three-member threshold.
Analyst note

This March 9, 2020 buy of approximately $1,001 in Xenia Hotels and Resorts was disclosed on May 6, 2020, a 58-day delay that exceeds the STOCK Act's 45-day statutory deadline. March 9, 2020 was a particularly turbulent trading session in U.S. markets, with major indices posting steep losses tied to both COVID-19 concerns and an oil price shock. Lodging REITs like Xenia were among the harder-hit sectors. The decision to buy into this environment, however small the individual trade, reflects the broader accumulation pattern visible across the cluster. Each of the buys from March 3 through at least March 10 was filed together two months later. The late batch filing approach, applied across multiple individual transactions each of which independently exceeded the statutory window, is the consistent pattern of concern here. No committee overlap or member clustering was established.

Trade Date
Mar 10, 2020
Size
$1K
Conflict Score
2 Medium
Committee Overlap
no fire
Pre-Vote Timing
no fire
Late Disclosure
+2 pts
Unusually Large
no fire
Member Cluster
no fire
Why each signal fired or did not
  • Committee Overlap: No reliable committee data is available to establish a plausible oversight link to hospitality REITs.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 57 days after the trade date, exceeding both the 30-day flag threshold and the 45-day STOCK Act statutory deadline.
  • Unusually Large: Trade size of $1,001 is far below the median of $15,001, at roughly 0.07x.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member traded XHR in the surrounding 14-day window, below the three-member threshold.
Analyst note

This March 10, 2020 buy of approximately $1,001 in Xenia Hotels and Resorts was the final small buy in the consecutive-day accumulation sequence before a larger sell on March 31. Filed on May 6, 2020, the 57-day delay exceeds the STOCK Act's 45-day statutory deadline. At this point in the cluster, at least six consecutive or near-consecutive daily buys had been executed across the preceding week, all at the minimum disclosed trade size. The subsequent March 31 sell at $15,001, which is at McCaul's median trade size for this ticker, suggests that the accumulated position was partially or fully unwound within roughly three weeks. All of these trades, buys and the March 31 sell, were filed together on May 6, 2020. The disclosure management of the March 2020 activity as a batch, rather than trade by trade, is the primary analytical concern across this segment of the 90-trade disclosed record.

Trade Date
Mar 31, 2020
Size
$15K
Conflict Score
2 Medium
Committee Overlap
no fire
Pre-Vote Timing
no fire
Late Disclosure
+2 pts
Unusually Large
no fire
Member Cluster
no fire
Why each signal fired or did not
  • Committee Overlap: No reliable committee data is available to establish a plausible oversight link to hospitality REITs.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 36 days after the trade date, exceeding the 30-day internal flag threshold but within the 45-day STOCK Act statutory deadline.
  • Unusually Large: Trade size of $15,001 equals the median exactly, at a 1x multiplier, which does not qualify as unusually large.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member traded XHR in the surrounding 14-day window, below the three-member threshold.
Analyst note

This March 31, 2020 sell of approximately $15,001 in Xenia Hotels and Resorts was filed on May 6, 2020, a 36-day delay. This exceeds Kapitol's internal 30-day flag threshold but remains within the STOCK Act's 45-day statutory window, so no statutory breach is indicated. This sell is notably larger than the preceding cluster of $1,001 buys, priced at McCaul's exact median trade size for this ticker, and it follows the consecutive daily buy sequence from March 3 to March 10, 2020. If the buys during that window were accumulating a position, this March 31 sell appears to unwind at least a portion of it near the end of one of the worst months in recent market history for lodging REITs. The sell arrived before the subsequent market recovery in the sector. The trade was filed in the same May 6 batch as the earlier buys. No member clustering or committee overlap signals were established. The broader disclosed record of 90 trades warrants continued monitoring of McCaul's activity in this position.

Summary across these 10 trades

Between Mar 4, 2019 and Mar 31, 2020, Michael T. McCaul bought $8K and sold $16K of XHR across 10 disclosed transactions. 90% (9 of 10) were filed past the 30-day STOCK Act window, and 0% (0 of 10) were unusually large relative to Michael T. McCaul's historical median trade size.

The other 80 trades (not yet individually analysed)

Across the remaining 80 disclosed XHR trades between Oct 17, 2016 and Feb 28, 2019, Michael T. McCaul bought $61K and sold $19K of XHR. 69% (55 of 80) were filed past the 30-day STOCK Act window, and 0% (0 of 80) sat above twice Michael T. McCaul's historical median trade size.

Late-filing and unusual-size flags are computed deterministically from the underlying disclosure columns. Per-trade narratives, committee overlap, and member-cluster scoring are restricted to the 10 most recent transactions above.

Scoring methodology

Every trade in the public dataset is scored against five rule-based signals. The score is auditable, not AI-guessed. AI is used only to write the analyst note, never to decide whether a signal fired.

  • Committee Overlap (+3): politician sat on a committee overseeing the company's sector at the time of the trade.
  • Pre-Vote Timing (+3 / +2): politician voted on legislation directly affecting the company within 30 (+3) or 60 (+2) days of the trade.
  • Late Disclosure (+2): filing arrived more than 30 days after the trade (STOCK Act allows 45).
  • Unusually Large (+1): position size sits above the politician's own historical baseline.
  • Member Cluster (+2): three or more members bought the same ticker within a 14-day window.

Score bands: Low (0-1), Medium (2-3), High (4-5), Critical (6+).

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