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165 Senate filing lines were re-filed. 17 came back different.

August 7, 2026 · 12-minute episode · everything below is reproduced from the primary documents linked at the bottom

What happened

On August 5, 2026, between 4:27 and 4:37 PM as timestamped by the Senate filing system, nine Periodic Transaction Report amendments were filed for one senator's disclosures. They amend eight reports whose report dates run back to April 2024 — and the transactions inside them run back to March 2024.

We placed every amended report next to the original it replaces and compared them line by line. The line counts match perfectly in every pair: 19→19, 94→94, 6→6, 12→12, 6→6, 16→16, 7→7, 5→5.

What it is not

It is not a late-filing story. Measured from each transaction to the day its report was filed, the gaps run 17 to 42 days — all inside the 45-day outer limit set by law. We are not making a compliance judgment; we measured a gap against a published limit.

It is also not a money-moved story. The 17 re-typed lines carry disclosed ranges totalling roughly $248,000–$795,000 (congressional filings report ranges, never exact figures). Every bracket in every amendment is identical to the original. Labels changed; dollars did not.

Why one word carries it

The Senate's published instructions use three transaction categories — purchase, sale, exchange. “Full” versus “partial” is a sub-label the official documents never define. So instead of quoting a rulebook, we looked at what the filings themselves show. One position (Owens Corning, joint account) was reported sold in full on 10/29/2024, with no repurchase disclosed after it — yet the annual report covering year-end 2024 still lists that position, same account, $15,001–$50,000 bracket. Two documents could not both be right. The amendment moves the record toward the one that is.

One honest caveat, because it cuts against a tidy story: these reports show more than one account inside a single ownership category (Apple alone appears four separate times in that year-end filing), so a “full sale” label does not always mean a ticker is gone. Owens Corning is clean because it appears exactly once.

The mechanics — and the drift

Every report carries a certification that reports cannot be edited once filed; corrections arrive as amendments. An amendment is a new document: the original stays listed and downloadable, nothing marks the altered rows, and on all 165 lines every comment field is blank. Anyone who copied these reports into a database, tracker, or news story in 2024–2025 is holding the old wording unless they went back. The official record moves; copies of it do not. These corrections landed 202–842 days after the reports they fix.

The ordinary explanation — stated plainly

Transaction type on these forms is a menu pick, and full-versus-partial is the easiest field to get wrong on paperwork assembled after the fact, for accounts someone else manages. This is a routine category of filing error, and the amendment process exists precisely because errors like this are expected — using it is the system doing its job. This filing history already shows the pattern: in May 2023 a report was amended the next day to fix a single digit in one date. Why these nine amendments arrived in one afternoon, the record does not say. And the sweep was partial: 98 “Sale (Full)” labels remain in those same reports, including an untouched report filed twenty days earlier.

Check us. Every claim above can be reproduced by opening the amendment next to its original — that is the entire method. All 19 documents are linked below. Episode thread on X: @wefollowfilings

Sources — amendments filed 08/05/2026

Originals they amend

Supporting documents

All amounts are disclosed ranges as reported. Filing timestamps are as displayed by the Senate eFD system. Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/vRZh1zRu5Hs