What''s Trading Most On Capitol Hill? What''s Trading Most On Capitol Hill? On August 9, after more than a year of preparation, President Biden signed the CHIPS for America Act into law. Congress passed the policy to strengthen U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturers in January 2021 but didn''t allocate it any budget until now. The bill comes at a time of increased dependency by U.S. companies like Apple, Qualcomm or NVIDIA on Taiwanese chip manufacturers. As Statista''s Florian Zandt notes, the latter company made headlines at the end of July when the spouse of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sold 25,000 of the corporation''s shares from their portfolio, one day before CHIPS Act passed Congress a second time. As Statista''s chart based on data from Capitol Trades shows, NVIDIA is not the only stock drawing increased attention from U.S. lawmakers in the past year. You will find more infographics at Statista Topping the list are Big Tech stocks like Microsoft, Apple and Alphabet, whose trade volume amounted to $129.6 million, $8.3 million and $7.0 million in the last twelve months, respectively.