Ro Khanna
Democrat House (CA) Committee Conflict

Ro Khanna × BRK.B

Berkshire Hathaway Inc (Financial Services)

119
Disclosed Trades
$1.2M
Total Buys
9y
Stacking
The Conflict

119 Trades in a Diversified Financial Conglomerate

Berkshire Hathaway is not a company whose regulatory fate turns directly on the work of Rep. Khanna's committees, which focus on defense technology and cybersecurity. However, the sheer volume of disclosed activity in this single ticker, 119 trades according to public disclosure data, makes the pattern structurally notable. Berkshire holds major positions in financial services, insurance, energy, and industrial companies, some of which intersect with federal policy areas Khanna actively legislates. The trust structure his wife manages does not eliminate the disclosure obligation, and the recurring clustering of trades around other members' activity adds a layer of interest to the aggregate pattern.

Berkshire Hathaway is a diversified holding company with subsidiaries spanning insurance, railroads, energy, manufacturing, and consumer brands. Its scale and cross-sector exposure mean federal regulatory and tax policy decisions can materially affect its portfolio value.

House Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation (Ranking Member)
Oversees DOD cybersecurity, AI, and digital modernization budgets. Berkshire's technology and defense-adjacent holdings give it indirect exposure to procurement and policy decisions flowing through this subcommittee.
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation
Examines federal agency technology spending and government contracting practices. Berkshire subsidiaries operating in energy, infrastructure, and technology sectors may be subject to federal contracts and regulatory review in this committee's scope.
Select Committee on Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party
Reviews U.S. economic and supply chain exposure to China. Berkshire's equity holdings in sectors with China trade and investment exposure fall within the committee's policy purview.

Trade-by-trade conflict scoring

Showing the 10 most recent of 119 disclosed trades. Each is scored against five rule-based signals.

Trade Date
May 19, 2025
Size
$15K
Conflict Score
3 Medium
Committee Overlap
no fire
Pre-Vote Timing
no fire
Late Disclosure
no fire
Unusually Large
+1 pts
Member Cluster
+2 pts
Why each signal fired or did not
  • Committee Overlap: Berkshire Hathaway does not fall under direct jurisdiction of Khanna's defense or cybersecurity committees, limiting formal overlap.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 22 days after the trade, within the 30-day disclosure threshold. No late filing violation triggered.
  • Unusually Large: Sale of approximately $15,001 is nearly 15 times the median trade size of $1,001 for this politician-ticker pair.
  • Member Cluster: Three members of Congress disclosed trades in BRK.B within the same 14-day window, meeting the clustering threshold.
Analyst note

This May 19, 2025 sale of approximately $15,001 in Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares stands out on two dimensions. First, the transaction size is roughly 15 times the median disclosed trade for this politician-ticker combination, elevating it above the routine minimum-bracket activity that dominates the 119-trade history for this pairing. Second, it falls inside a 14-day window during which at least three members of Congress disclosed trades in the same security, meeting the member-clustering threshold. Clustering across members does not establish coordination, but it is a pattern worth noting given the volume of BRK.B activity in this portfolio. Disclosure timing was within bounds at 22 days. Khanna has publicly attributed trading to a trust managed by his spouse and has advocated for a congressional stock trading ban. The absence of direct committee jurisdiction over Berkshire's core businesses limits the structural conflict signal here, but the size and clustering combination keeps this trade in the higher-signal tier of the 119-trade record.

Trade Date
May 28, 2025
Size
$1K
Conflict Score
2 Medium
Committee Overlap
no fire
Pre-Vote Timing
no fire
Late Disclosure
no fire
Unusually Large
no fire
Member Cluster
+2 pts
Why each signal fired or did not
  • Committee Overlap: Berkshire Hathaway does not fall under direct jurisdiction of Khanna's defense or cybersecurity committees.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 13 days after the trade date, well within the 30-day disclosure threshold.
  • Unusually Large: Transaction size of $1,001 is exactly at the median for this politician-ticker pair, with no size elevation.
  • Member Cluster: Three members of Congress disclosed BRK.B trades within the same 14-day window, reaching the clustering threshold.
Analyst note

This May 28, 2025 sale of approximately $1,001 in Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares is a minimum-bracket transaction, consistent with the floor-level activity that characterizes much of the 119-trade disclosure history for this pairing. On its own, the trade carries limited analytical weight: no late filing, no unusual size, no committee jurisdiction overlap with Berkshire's core businesses. The single signal of note is the member-clustering flag, with three members of Congress disclosing BRK.B trades within the same 14-day window. This trade and Trade 6204 were filed on the same date, June 10, 2025, suggesting batch disclosure of activity from the same period. When viewed individually, this minimum-bracket sale is low signal. When viewed within the broader 119-trade pattern and alongside the same-period $15,001 sale in Trade 6204, it contributes to a picture of continuous, high-frequency activity in a single diversified financial holding. Disclosure timing is unremarkable at 13 days.

Trade Date
Jun 23, 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: Berkshire Hathaway's primary businesses do not intersect directly with Khanna's defense and cybersecurity committee jurisdictions.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 16 days after the trade, comfortably within the 30-day threshold with no late disclosure flag.
  • Unusually Large: Purchase of approximately $15,001 is nearly 15 times the median transaction size of $1,001 for this pairing.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member disclosed BRK.B trades in the surrounding 14-day window, below the three-member clustering threshold.
Analyst note

This June 23, 2025 purchase of approximately $15,001 in Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares is notable primarily for its size. At roughly 15 times the median transaction for this politician-ticker combination, it is among the larger single transactions in the disclosed record for this pairing. The disclosure was timely at 16 days, and no member-clustering signal was present, distinguishing it from some of the surrounding trades. The trade also comes one week before a $50,001 sale on June 26, captured in Trade 5017, raising the question of whether the trust was actively rebalancing its Berkshire position in late June 2025. Without evidence of committee jurisdiction overlap or coordination with other members, the elevated size is the primary signal of record here. Across 119 disclosed trades in this ticker, the pattern suggests sustained and actively managed exposure to Berkshire Hathaway, with periodic spikes in transaction size that deviate from the otherwise routine minimum-bracket activity.

Trade Date
Jun 26, 2025
Size
$50K
Conflict Score
3 Medium
Committee Overlap
no fire
Pre-Vote Timing
no fire
Late Disclosure
no fire
Unusually Large
+1 pts
Member Cluster
+2 pts
Why each signal fired or did not
  • Committee Overlap: Berkshire's diversified holdings do not align directly with Khanna's defense cybersecurity or government oversight committee jurisdictions.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Disclosed 13 days after the trade date, well within the 30-day statutory window.
  • Unusually Large: Sale of approximately $50,001 is nearly 50 times the median trade size of $1,001 for this politician-ticker pair.
  • Member Cluster: Three members of Congress disclosed BRK.B trades in the same 14-day window, meeting the clustering threshold.
Analyst note

This June 26, 2025 sale of approximately $50,001 in Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares is one of the larger transactions in the disclosed record for this pairing. The $50,001 figure represents nearly 50 times the median transaction size of $1,001 across the 119-trade history, placing it firmly in the elevated-size tier. The trade also falls within a 14-day window during which at least three members of Congress disclosed BRK.B trades, triggering the member-clustering signal. Notably, this sale occurs just three days after the $15,001 purchase recorded in Trade 5180, suggesting an active rotation or rebalancing sequence in the trust's Berkshire position during late June 2025. Both trades were filed on the same date, July 9, 2025, consistent with batch disclosure. Disclosure timing is within bounds at 13 days. The combination of a near-50x size spike and concurrent member clustering elevates this trade to one of the higher-signal entries among the 10 most recent disclosures, even in the absence of direct committee jurisdiction overlap.

Trade Date
Jul 8, 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: Berkshire's core businesses do not fall directly within the jurisdiction of Khanna's defense or cybersecurity-focused committees.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Delay of exactly 30 days matches but does not exceed the 30-day threshold, so no late disclosure signal fires.
  • Unusually Large: Transaction size of $1,001 is exactly at the median for this politician-ticker pair, triggering no size flag.
  • Member Cluster: Only two members disclosed BRK.B trades in the surrounding 14-day window, one short of the three-member threshold.
Analyst note

This July 8, 2025 purchase of approximately $1,001 in Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares is a minimum-bracket transaction that clears no signals beyond the borderline disclosure timing. The 30-day filing delay is precisely at the statutory threshold, which is technically compliant but leaves no margin. No size flag fires, no clustering is present, and no committee jurisdiction overlap with Berkshire's core businesses has been established. In isolation, this is among the lowest-signal trades in the disclosed record for this pairing. However, it must be read in the context of the surrounding activity: a $50,001 sale on June 26, this small buy on July 8, and a $50,001 sale again on July 25 (Trade 4255). The pattern suggests the trust is actively cycling in and out of Berkshire positions in relatively short intervals. Across 119 total disclosed trades, this granular churn is a recurring structural feature of the portfolio. The borderline disclosure timing is worth noting even if it does not formally trigger the late-filing signal.

Trade Date
Jul 25, 2025
Size
$50K
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: Berkshire Hathaway's primary sectors do not fall under direct jurisdiction of Khanna's defense or cybersecurity committee roles.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 13 days after the trade, well within the 30-day statutory disclosure window.
  • Unusually Large: Sale of approximately $50,001 is nearly 50 times the median disclosed transaction of $1,001 for this pairing.
  • Member Cluster: Two members disclosed BRK.B trades in the 14-day window, just below the three-member clustering threshold.
Analyst note

This July 25, 2025 sale of approximately $50,001 in Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares is the second $50,001 sell in roughly one month, following a near-identical transaction on June 26 (Trade 5017). The pattern across late June and July 2025 is notable: a $15,001 buy on June 23, a $50,001 sale on June 26, a small $1,001 buy on July 8, and now a $50,001 sale on July 25. This cycling behavior, with large sells bookending a minimum-bracket buy, is structurally interesting when viewed against the full 119-trade history. The unusually large signal fires here at nearly 50 times the median transaction size. Disclosure timing is prompt at 13 days. No member-clustering signal fires, distinguishing this trade from the June 26 sale which saw three-member concurrent activity. The absence of committee overlap with Berkshire's core businesses means the elevated size remains the primary signal of record, absent a broader regulatory trigger.

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: Berkshire's diversified holdings do not directly intersect with Khanna's defense technology or oversight committee jurisdictions.
  • 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 statutory threshold by six days.
  • Unusually Large: Transaction size of $1,001 matches the median for this politician-ticker combination, with no size elevation.
  • Member Cluster: Only one member disclosed BRK.B trades in the surrounding 14-day window, well below the clustering threshold.
Analyst note

This August 4, 2025 purchase of approximately $1,001 in Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares is a minimum-bracket transaction, but it carries the late-disclosure signal, the only one among these 10 trades where a floor-level transaction also triggers a filing delay flag. The disclosure arrived 36 days after the trade date, six days beyond the 30-day statutory window. While six days is not a dramatic overage, it is a formal violation of the STOCK Act's disclosure timeline. Given that this is a trust-managed account, the administrative responsibility for timely filing rests with the reporting member. This is not an isolated instance: Trade 1000 also triggered the late-disclosure signal at 35 days. Across 119 total disclosures, the combination of high trade volume and periodic late filing creates a compliance picture worth tracking. The trade itself carries no size or clustering signal. The primary note here is the procedural one: a routine minimum-bracket buy filed outside the statutory window.

Trade Date
Aug 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: Berkshire Hathaway does not fall under direct oversight from Khanna's defense cybersecurity or government innovation committee roles.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 14 days after the trade date, well within the 30-day statutory threshold.
  • Unusually Large: Purchase of approximately $15,001 is nearly 15 times the median transaction size of $1,001 for this pairing.
  • Member Cluster: Only one other member disclosed BRK.B trades in the 14-day window, below the three-member clustering threshold.
Analyst note

This August 26, 2025 purchase of approximately $15,001 in Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares represents a size-elevated buy, at roughly 15 times the median transaction for this pairing. It follows the $50,001 sale on July 25 (Trade 4255) and a minimum-bracket buy on August 4 (Trade 3840), continuing the pattern of active short-interval cycling in this position observed throughout mid-2025. Disclosure was timely at 14 days, and no member-clustering was present. The elevated size is the sole signal firing here. The broader rhythm across the summer 2025 period, large sells followed by smaller buys and then another elevated purchase, is consistent with a trust actively managing its Berkshire exposure rather than holding passively. Across 119 disclosed trades, this type of alternating buy-sell sequence at varying size brackets is a recurrent structural feature of the portfolio, making any single transaction difficult to assess in isolation without the full chronological record.

Trade Date
Nov 3, 2025
Size
$15K
Conflict Score
5 High
Committee Overlap
no fire
Pre-Vote Timing
no fire
Late Disclosure
+2 pts
Unusually Large
+1 pts
Member Cluster
+2 pts
Why each signal fired or did not
  • Committee Overlap: Berkshire's primary sectors do not fall under direct jurisdiction of Khanna's defense or cybersecurity committee assignments.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 35 days after the November 3 trade, five days beyond the 30-day statutory disclosure deadline.
  • Unusually Large: Sale of approximately $15,001 is nearly 15 times the median transaction size of $1,001 for this pairing.
  • Member Cluster: Three members of Congress disclosed BRK.B trades within the same 14-day window, meeting the clustering threshold.
Analyst note

This November 3, 2025 sale of approximately $15,001 in Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares is one of the higher-signal transactions in the 10-trade sample, with three signals firing simultaneously. The late-disclosure flag indicates the filing arrived 35 days after the trade date, five days past the statutory window. The unusually large signal reflects a transaction nearly 15 times the median for this pairing. And the member-clustering signal shows at least three members of Congress disclosed BRK.B trades within the same 14-day window. The convergence of a size spike, a late filing, and concurrent member activity in the same security makes this trade structurally more notable than the minimum-bracket transactions that dominate the 119-trade history. The late filing is the second instance among these 10 trades (alongside Trade 3840), suggesting a periodic compliance gap in the trust's reporting cadence. No committee jurisdiction overlap with Berkshire's core businesses has been established, so the conflict signal rests on these behavioral and procedural dimensions rather than a regulatory nexus.

Trade Date
Nov 12, 2025
Size
$1K
Conflict Score
2 Medium
Committee Overlap
no fire
Pre-Vote Timing
no fire
Late Disclosure
no fire
Unusually Large
no fire
Member Cluster
+2 pts
Why each signal fired or did not
  • Committee Overlap: Berkshire Hathaway's core businesses do not fall directly under Khanna's defense cybersecurity or government innovation committee oversight.
  • Pre-Vote Timing: Vote calendar data not yet ingested for this dataset.
  • Late Disclosure: Filed 26 days after the trade, within the 30-day disclosure threshold with no late filing violation.
  • Unusually Large: Transaction size of $1,001 is at the median for this politician-ticker pair, with no size elevation triggered.
  • Member Cluster: Four members of Congress disclosed BRK.B trades within the same 14-day window, exceeding the three-member clustering threshold.
Analyst note

This November 12, 2025 sale of approximately $1,001 in Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares is a minimum-bracket transaction with a single active signal: member clustering. Four members of Congress disclosed trades in BRK.B within the same 14-day window, the highest clustering count among the 10 most recent trades in this record. This trade and the November 3 sale (Trade 1000) were both filed on December 8, 2025, consistent with batch disclosure of activity from the same month. The November 3 trade carried three firing signals including a late disclosure; this trade by contrast is procedurally clean at 26 days. The clustering of four concurrent member disclosures in the same security is a pattern worth noting, though it does not establish coordination. Viewed across the full 119-trade history, the recurring presence of this pairing in multi-member disclosure windows suggests Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares remain a widely held and actively traded security among House members, with this portfolio contributing to that aggregate pattern at high frequency.

Summary across these 10 trades

Between May 19, 2025 and Nov 12, 2025, Ro Khanna bought $32K and sold $132K of BRK.B across 10 disclosed transactions. 20% (2 of 10) were filed past the 30-day STOCK Act window, and 60% (6 of 10) were unusually large relative to Ro Khanna's historical median trade size.

The other 109 trades (not yet individually analysed)

Across the remaining 109 disclosed BRK.B trades between Feb 27, 2017 and May 5, 2025, Ro Khanna bought $455K and sold $544K of BRK.B. 28% (30 of 109) were filed past the 30-day STOCK Act window, and 37% (40 of 109) 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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