Ro Khanna
Democrat House (CA) Committee Conflict

Ro Khanna × BAX

Baxter International Inc (Health Care)

88
Disclosed Trades
$158K
Total Buys
9y
Stacking
Disclosure Pattern

88 Trades in a Major Health Care Company

Ro Khanna represents Silicon Valley and sits on committees focused on defense technology, cybersecurity, and government oversight. Baxter International is a large health care company whose products, supply chains, and federal reimbursement streams intersect with government procurement and regulatory policy. While Khanna's committee assignments do not place him in direct oversight of health care legislation, his family trust has disclosed 88 trades in Baxter across a sustained period, a volume that invites scrutiny regardless of committee jurisdiction. Khanna has publicly stated he does not direct these trades, and has co-sponsored legislation to ban congressional stock trading entirely. The sheer frequency of activity here is the primary analytical driver.

Baxter International manufactures and distributes medical products including IV solutions, renal care devices, and hospital supplies. A significant portion of its revenue flows through Medicare, Medicaid, and federal procurement contracts, making it subject to ongoing regulatory and legislative oversight.

House Committee on Armed Services
Oversees Department of Defense procurement and medical readiness. DOD is a purchaser of medical supplies and devices, creating indirect exposure to health care product companies such as Baxter International.
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Oversees federal agency operations and spending, including health care contracting. Baxter's reliance on federal reimbursement programs and government procurement places it within this committee's broad investigative reach.

Trade-by-trade conflict scoring

Showing the 10 most recent of 88 disclosed trades. Each is scored against five rule-based signals.

Trade Date
Jun 16, 2025
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: Khanna's committees focus on defense tech and oversight; no direct jurisdiction over health care product companies like Baxter.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 23 days after the trade, within both the 30-day internal flag threshold and the 45-day STOCK Act deadline.
  • Unusually Large: Trade size of $1,001 matches the median exactly, representing no notable size deviation.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member disclosed a trade in this ticker within the 14-day window, below the three-member threshold.
Analyst note

This June 16, 2025 sell of approximately $1,001 in Baxter International is a minimum-bracket transaction, the smallest reportable trade size under disclosure rules. Filed 23 days after execution, it falls comfortably within both the internal 30-day flag threshold and the STOCK Act's 45-day statutory deadline. No automated signals fired on this trade. Viewed in isolation, it carries minimal analytical weight. However, this trade is one of 88 disclosed transactions Khanna's family trust has made in Baxter over a broader period. The pattern of repeated minimum-bracket trades, many executed in close succession, is more analytically meaningful than any single entry. At this trade size, precise market timing would have negligible financial impact, suggesting the volume of activity rather than individual trade size is the relevant lens for assessing this position.

Trade Date
Jun 23, 2025
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: Khanna's committee assignments centre on defense technology and government oversight, not health care sector regulation.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 16 days after the trade, well inside the 30-day internal flag threshold and 45-day statutory deadline.
  • Unusually Large: At $1,001, this trade is at the median size with no measurable size anomaly.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member traded this ticker in the surrounding 14-day window, well below the cluster threshold.
Analyst note

This June 23, 2025 sell of approximately $1,001 in Baxter International was filed just 16 days after execution, one of the prompter disclosures in this dataset. The trade is at the minimum reportable bracket and sits at the median for this politician's Baxter trading history. No signals fired. Notably, this trade occurred one week after Trade 5485, another $1,001 Baxter sell, and both were batched into the same July 9 filing. The batching of multiple trades into a single filing is a common pattern in this dataset and is itself informative: it is consistent with a trust making periodic portfolio adjustments and disclosing them together rather than individually. Across 88 total disclosed trades in Baxter, this kind of sequential small-bracket activity appears to be the dominant pattern, rather than any single high-value or high-signal transaction.

Trade Date
Jun 26, 2025
Size
$15K
Conflict Score
1 Low
Committee Overlap
no fire
Pre-Vote Timing
no fire
Late Disclosure
no fire
Unusually Large
+1 pts
Member Cluster
no fire
Why each signal fired or did not
  • Committee Overlap: No direct committee jurisdiction over health care product manufacturers is established for Khanna's current assignments.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 13 days after execution, well within both the 30-day internal flag threshold and 45-day statutory deadline.
  • Unusually Large: At $15,001, this trade is approximately 15 times the median size of $1,001 for this politician's Baxter trades.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member disclosed activity in this ticker within the 14-day window, below the cluster threshold.
Analyst note

This June 26, 2025 sell stands out as the single largest trade in this 10-trade window, at approximately $15,001, roughly 15 times the median trade size of $1,001 across this politician's Baxter history. It is also the only trade in this dataset to trigger the unusually large signal. The trade was filed on July 9, just 13 days after execution, making disclosure timing a non-issue here. No cluster activity was detected. The size anomaly is the primary analytical flag. Within a portfolio that predominantly transacts at the $1,001 minimum bracket, a sale at this scale represents a meaningful departure from typical behaviour. Whether this reflects a deliberate portfolio reduction or a periodic rebalancing event is not determinable from public disclosure data alone, but the magnitude warrants attention given the broader context of 88 total Baxter disclosures.

Trade Date
Aug 4, 2025
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: Khanna's committee roles in defense tech and government oversight do not directly encompass health care sector companies.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 36 days after the August 4 trade, exceeding the 30-day internal flag threshold, though within the 45-day STOCK Act statutory deadline.
  • Unusually Large: Trade size of $1,001 matches the median exactly, showing no deviation from the typical trade size.
  • Member Cluster: Only two members traded this ticker in the surrounding 14-day window, below the three-member cluster threshold.
Analyst note

This August 4, 2025 buy of approximately $1,001 in Baxter International triggered the late disclosure flag, having been filed 36 days after execution on September 9. While 36 days exceeds Kapitol.ai's internal 30-day flag threshold, it remains within the STOCK Act's statutory 45-day filing deadline, so no legal violation is indicated. The trade itself is at the minimum bracket and unremarkable in size. Two members were active in this ticker in the surrounding window, still below the cluster threshold. The disclosure delay is modest and could reflect routine batch filing, consistent with the pattern observed across this dataset, where multiple trades are grouped into a single periodic disclosure. Viewed against 88 total Baxter disclosures, a 36-day delay on a $1,001 buy is a procedural note rather than a substantive signal. The combination of small size and near-threshold delay does not materially elevate the analytical concern here.

Trade Date
Aug 12, 2025
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 established committee jurisdiction over health care products companies applies to Khanna's confirmed assignments.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 28 days after the August 12 trade, just inside the 30-day internal flag threshold and well within the statutory deadline.
  • Unusually Large: At $1,001, this trade is at the median size with no measurable departure from typical activity.
  • Member Cluster: Two members disclosed activity in this ticker within the 14-day window, below the three-member cluster threshold.
Analyst note

This August 12, 2025 sell of approximately $1,001 in Baxter International was filed 28 days after execution, just inside the 30-day internal flag threshold. No signals fired. Two members of Congress were active in Baxter within the surrounding 14-day window, approaching but not reaching the cluster threshold. Like the majority of trades in this dataset, the transaction sits at the minimum reportable bracket. This trade was batched into the same September 9 filing as Trade 3957 (an August 4 buy) and Trade 3207 (an August 26 buy), illustrating the trust's pattern of consolidating multiple Baxter transactions into periodic disclosures. Individually this trade is low signal. Contextually, it is one data point in a sustained, high-frequency exposure to Baxter that spans 88 total disclosed transactions. That volume remains the most analytically notable feature of this politician-ticker pairing.

Trade Date
Aug 26, 2025
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: Khanna's confirmed committees do not include direct oversight of health care product manufacturers or reimbursement policy.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 14 days after the August 26 trade, comfortably within both the 30-day internal flag and 45-day statutory threshold.
  • Unusually Large: Trade size of $1,001 is at the median, showing no size anomaly relative to this politician's Baxter history.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member disclosed activity in this ticker in the surrounding 14-day window, well below the cluster threshold.
Analyst note

This August 26, 2025 buy of approximately $1,001 in Baxter International was filed 14 days after execution on September 9, one of the more timely disclosures in the dataset. No signals fired on this trade. It was filed in the same batch as trades from August 4 and August 12, confirming the trust's practice of periodic grouped disclosures rather than individual per-trade filings. The trade itself is at the minimum reportable bracket and triggers no size or clustering alerts. In isolation this transaction carries little analytical weight. Within the context of 88 total Baxter disclosures, however, it contributes to a clear pattern: the trust appears to maintain an active, rolling position in Baxter, oscillating between buys and sells at the minimum bracket with occasional larger transactions such as the $15,001 sell in Trade 4990. That oscillation across a health care company over a sustained period is the central analytical observation for this pairing.

Trade Date
Sep 3, 2025
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 direct committee jurisdiction linking Khanna's assignments to health care product regulation has been established.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed exactly 30 days after the September 3 trade, at the boundary of the internal flag threshold but not exceeding it.
  • Unusually Large: At $1,001, this trade is at the median with no size anomaly relative to this politician's Baxter trading history.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member was active in this ticker in the surrounding 14-day window, below the cluster threshold.
Analyst note

This September 3, 2025 sell of approximately $1,001 in Baxter International was filed on October 3, exactly 30 days after execution. The internal flag threshold is 30 days, and at exactly that boundary the late disclosure signal does not fire. This is a borderline timing observation worth noting descriptively: the filing arrived at the outer edge of the internal monitoring window, though well within the 45-day STOCK Act statutory deadline. No other signals fired. The trade is at the minimum reportable bracket and was filed alongside Trade 3035 (a September 5 sell), continuing the pattern of batched periodic disclosures. This pairing of a September 3 sell and a September 5 sell filed together on October 3 shows the trust was executing multiple Baxter transactions within a short window. Across 88 total disclosures, this is characteristic of an active, systematically managed position rather than any discrete event-driven trade.

Trade Date
Sep 5, 2025
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: Khanna's committee roles in defense technology and oversight do not directly encompass health care sector companies like Baxter.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 28 days after the September 5 trade, within both the 30-day internal flag threshold and the 45-day statutory deadline.
  • Unusually Large: At $1,001, this trade matches the median exactly and shows no measurable size deviation.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member disclosed activity in this ticker within the 14-day window, well below the cluster threshold.
Analyst note

This September 5, 2025 sell of approximately $1,001 in Baxter International was filed 28 days after execution on October 3, two days ahead of the 30-day internal flag threshold. No signals fired. As noted under Trade 3095, this transaction was batched with a September 3 sell into the same October 3 filing. The two trades are separated by just two calendar days, both at the minimum bracket. This close sequencing is consistent with a trust-managed account executing small, systematic trades in a familiar holding rather than any single event-driven decision. Individually the trade is low signal on every dimension: size, disclosure timing, and clustering all register within normal parameters. The broader analytical frame for this pairing, as with all 88 Baxter trades across this disclosure record, is sustained exposure to a health care company whose revenues are tied to federal reimbursement programs, held by a trust controlled by a member of Congress with oversight committee assignments.

Trade Date
Sep 29, 2025
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 direct committee jurisdiction over health care companies is established for Khanna's confirmed 119th Congress assignments.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed just 4 days after the September 29 trade, among the fastest disclosures in this dataset.
  • Unusually Large: At $1,001, this trade is at the median with no deviation from typical trade size in this series.
  • Member Cluster: Two members were active in this ticker in the surrounding 14-day window, below the three-member cluster threshold.
Analyst note

This September 29, 2025 buy of approximately $1,001 in Baxter International was disclosed in just 4 days, filed on October 3. This is notably prompt relative to the rest of the dataset and suggests either active monitoring of filing obligations or a batching coincidence where the October 3 filing was already being prepared. No signals fired. Two members were active in Baxter within the surrounding window, still one short of the cluster threshold. This trade, batched with the September 3 and September 5 sells into the October 3 filing, shows the trust reversing direction within the same month: selling twice in early September and buying again on September 29. This oscillating buy-sell pattern within a single ticker over short timeframes, repeated across 88 total disclosures, is the defining characteristic of this portfolio's engagement with Baxter International and the primary lens through which the full disclosure record should be read.

Trade Date
Nov 10, 2025
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 direct committee jurisdiction over health care product companies applies to Khanna's established committee assignments.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 28 days after the November 10 trade, within both the 30-day internal flag threshold and the 45-day statutory deadline.
  • Unusually Large: At $1,001, this trade is at the median size with no measurable size anomaly.
  • Member Cluster: Two members were active in this ticker within the surrounding 14-day window, below the three-member cluster threshold.
Analyst note

This November 10, 2025 sell of approximately $1,001 in Baxter International was filed 28 days after execution on December 8. No signals fired. Two members were active in this ticker in the surrounding 14-day window, approaching but not reaching the cluster threshold. The trade is at the minimum reportable bracket and its disclosure timing is within normal parameters. As the most recent trade in this 10-trade window, and one of 88 total Baxter disclosures across Khanna's record, it illustrates the persistence of the trust's engagement with this holding over an extended period. The combination of sustained high-frequency trading in a federally regulated health care company, occasional departures from the minimum bracket such as the $15,001 sell in June 2025, and Khanna's stated advocacy for a congressional stock trading ban, makes the overall disclosure pattern for this pairing more analytically significant than any individual transaction within it.

Summary across these 10 trades

Between Jun 16, 2025 and Nov 10, 2025, Ro Khanna bought $3K and sold $21K of BAX across 10 disclosed transactions. 10% (1 of 10) were filed past the 30-day STOCK Act window, and 10% (1 of 10) were unusually large relative to Ro Khanna's historical median trade size.

The other 78 trades (not yet individually analysed)

Across the remaining 78 disclosed BAX trades between Feb 8, 2017 and Jun 10, 2025, Ro Khanna bought $57K and sold $77K of BAX. 37% (29 of 78) were filed past the 30-day STOCK Act window, and 5% (4 of 78) sat above twice Ro Khanna'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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