Ro Khanna's Spouse Makes Repeated Buys in a Stock No Other Lawmaker Has Touched

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) has disclosed seven separate purchases of TENB, the ticker for Tenable Holdings, made by his spouse between October 8 and October 29, 2026. The trades, each valued between $1,001 and $15,000, total roughly $56,000. No other member of Congress has reported a trade in TENB in the last three years.

The filings, submitted under the STOCK Act, list the owner as "spouse." The buys cluster in late October: October 26, 27, 28, and 29 saw four consecutive daily transactions. Earlier purchases came on October 8, 14, and 21. Tenable's stock traded around $43.67 at the time of the disclosures, with a 52-week range of $15.73 to $53.22.

Khanna sits on the House Armed Services Committee, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. He also holds subcommittee seats on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation, and on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation. Tenable, a cybersecurity firm headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, sells vulnerability management and exposure analytics software to government agencies and private enterprises. Its federal business includes contracts with the Department of Defense and other agencies under Khanna's oversight purview.

The three-year gap in congressional trading of TENB makes Khanna's spouse the only lawmaker-linked buyer in that window. No other member has bought or sold the stock, according to disclosure records compiled from Senate and House filings. That isolation is unusual for a mid-cap tech name with a government-heavy customer base.

Khanna's career trading history is extensive: he has reported 20,339 total transactions since entering Congress. The volume puts him among the most active traders in the House, though the filings do not indicate whether Khanna directs the trades or his spouse manages them independently. The STOCK Act requires disclosure of transactions over $1,000 within 45 days, and these reports appear timely.

The overlap between Tenable's business and Khanna's committee assignments does not, by itself, imply a conflict. Federal ethics rules prohibit lawmakers from using nonpublic information for personal gain, but they do not bar trades in companies that intersect with their legislative work. The disclosures provide no indication of what information, if any, motivated the purchases.

Tenable's stock has been volatile over the past year. It hit a low of $15.73 and a high of $53.22, and the October buys came in the upper half of that range. The company's most recent earnings report, released in late October, showed revenue growth but a widening net loss. The stock dipped after the report, then recovered somewhat.

Khanna has been a vocal advocate for cybersecurity spending and federal IT modernization. His subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation has held hearings on federal zero-trust architecture, a market Tenable directly serves. A 2024 contract with the Department of Homeland Security, valued at up to $17 million, expanded Tenable's federal footprint.

The latest congressional trades database shows no other lawmaker has taken a position in TENB since early 2024. Khanna's spouse now holds a stake that, at current prices, is worth somewhere between $7,000 and $105,000, depending on the exact purchase prices. The disclosures do not specify the precise number of shares bought.

All seven trades were buys. No sales in TENB have been reported by Khanna or his spouse. The pattern of repeated purchases over three weeks suggests a deliberate accumulation rather than a one-off decision, though the filings do not explain the strategy.

The disclosed trades

Every TENB line item from Ro Khanna's periodic transaction reports, as filed: