Composite 5.79 / 10, weighted per the Constitutional Weight Schedule.
Below the 700 bar, Author's Verdict: not supported.
An honest middle. A first-term member with a clean institutional record on the floor, strong attendance, several genuinely bipartisan bills co-led with Democrats, no documented election-subversion, enemy-making, or abuse-of-power conduct. What holds him out of the support band is a real fiduciary appearance-concern: 140-plus personal stock trades worth millions in companies (CSX, Uber, Schneider) that sit squarely under his own Transportation & Infrastructure Committee jurisdiction, executed amid tariff-driven volatility in his first months in office. STOCK Act-compliant and uncharged, weighed as an appearance-concern, not a finding, but it is the precise office-attributable category the standard scrutinizes, and there is not yet a long accountability record to offset it. Adequate, not yet Sound.
No military service on record. Career background is business (founder of Storage Express, sold 2022) and local government (Indianapolis City-County Council 2013-2016, 2018-2020) before election to the U.S. House in 2024. No service badge is claimed or scored.
The 14 measures
Each measure is scored 0–10 against an anchored example, with a cited source. Hover/expand why? for the reasoning.
| # | Measure | Score | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| M01 | Duty to Constitution & Rule of Law | 6 | why?No documented conduct subverting a constitutional process. Seated January 2025, he could not have signed the
December 2020 Texas v. Pennsylvania amicus and is not on that signatory list; no fake-elector, certification-
defiance, or process-subversion conduct is on record. A first-term floor record with no oath-defining stand
either direction yields an honest middle, not a high mark.
[source] |
| M02 | Party Over Country | 6 | why?Genuine cross-aisle work for a first-termer: the BANNED in Latin America Act co-led with Rep. Josh Gottheimer
(D-NJ), the Rural Animal Shelter Investment Act co-led with Rep. Shomari Figures (D-AL), and the bipartisan
anti-scam provisions folded into the State Department Reauthorization. Modest but real institutional
cooperation; held at the middle by the short tenure rather than penalized.
[source] |
| M03 | Persons of Equal Worth | 6 | why?No documented anti-belonging rhetoric or conduct casting constituents or opponents as outside the polity. The
record is unremarkable on this axis in either direction; honest middle.
[source] |
| M04 | Weaponization of Justice | 6 | why?No documented weaponization of state power against rivals, no abuse-of-office conduct, no criterion-class
process subversion. Clean on this measure; the middle reflects absence of evidence either way over a short tenure.
[source] |
| M05 | Incitement / Anti-Belonging | 6 | why?No documented pattern of inflammatory or dehumanizing rhetoric. His public posture has been
business-administrator-plain; the contested gun-position shift from his 2016 and 2023 runs is a policy stance,
expressly not scored here. Restraint by default, no high-mark anchor.
[source] |
| M06 | Fiduciary Conduct | 5 | why?The fiduciary-judgment drag. 140-plus trades worth $3.44M-$9.45M in his first months, many in
committee-jurisdiction firms and timed around tariff volatility, is a real appearance-of-impropriety concern
under the prudence standard, even though disclosure was STOCK Act-compliant and no violation is charged. An
advisor-managed account is offered as mitigation but does not erase the appearance. No accountability record
yet to offset; below the middle.
[source] |
| M07 | Duty to Call Out | 6 | why?No documented instance of calling out his own side at cost (the higher active-duty bar), but also no
documented capitulation or bad-faith conduct. The bipartisan co-leads show willingness to work across the
aisle; absent a costly own-side stand, an honest middle.
[source] |
| M08 | The Discretion Test | 6 | why?No documented misuse of discretionary authority and no purest-form sacrifice on record either. A short tenure
without a defining discretion test yields the middle.
[source] |
| M09 | The No-Camera Test | 6 | why?No documented public/private contempt gap; no reporting of an off-camera posture diverging from the on-camera
one. Absence of evidence, honest middle.
[source] |
| M10 | Constituent-vs-Donor Vote | 6 | why?Strong floor attendance (9 of 548 roll calls missed, 1.6%, better than the chamber median) and
district-facing legislation (rural animal shelters, anti-scam) show institutional diligence. Held at the
middle by the brevity of the record and the absence of a standout constituent-fidelity moment.
[source] |
| M11 | Net-Worth Trajectory | 4 | why?Scored ONLY on office-attributable conduct, not raw wealth, his ~$590M Storage Express sale is pre-office and
carries no penalty here. The drag is the office-information-trade appearance: 140-plus personal trades in
companies (CSX, Uber, Schneider National) directly under his Transportation & Infrastructure Committee
jurisdiction, executed during tariff-driven market swings, several appreciating sharply afterward. STOCK
Act-compliant disclosure and no charge or finding, weighed as an appearance-concern, never a conviction, but
it is precisely the self-dealing-appearance category this measure exists to catch, and there is no offsetting
accountability record yet. Below the middle.
[source] |
| M12 | Floor Decorum | 6 | why?No documented breach of institutional decorum, no spectacle conduct, no floor-disruption incidents. Routine
adherence to regular order for a first-termer; honest middle.
[source] |
| M13 | Lying & Misleading | 6 | why?No sustained documented-falsehood pattern on record. The gun-position reversal between his 2016/2023 runs is a
policy-stance change expressly excluded from scoring, not a truthfulness finding. No anchor either way; middle.
[source] |
| M14 | Knowledge Depth | 6 | why?Demonstrated substantive engagement on his committee files, the Dismantling Foreign Scam Syndicates Act
advanced into the State Department Reauthorization, and authored measures landed in the FY2026 NDAA. A credible
working-substance signal for a first-termer; held at the middle by the limited record.
[source] |
Why not higher, the points withheld
The standard is the seat; the ceiling is a perfect 10. Every withheld point traces to documented conduct, weighed where the measures and attributes say it belongs, shown openly here, the same way the earned points are.
| Where | Documented conduct | Mitigation weighed |
|---|---|---|
| M11 | 140-plus personal stock trades worth $3.44M-$9.45M in his first months, including CSX, Uber and Schneider National, firms under his Transportation & Infrastructure Committee jurisdiction, amid tariff-driven volatility ↳ office-information-trade appearance (self-dealing concern) | STOCK Act-compliant disclosure; no charge or finding; account stated to be advisor-managed, weighed as appearance-concern, not a finding |
| M06 | Volume and timing of committee-jurisdiction trades raise a prudence/appearance-of-impropriety concern ↳ fiduciary judgment | Disclosure compliant; uncharged; no accountability record yet either way |
| Pillar III | The committee-jurisdiction trading is the kind of stewardship-appearance a trustee should avoid (Stewardship) ↳ Stewardship drag | No exploitation finding; pre-office wealth not penalized |
| Pillar IV | Trading-appearance asterisk on an otherwise clean early legacy (Integrity) ↳ Integrity drag | Short tenure; no pattern established; uncharged |
The Four Pillars, worthy to be followed?
A separate axis from the 14 measures. The measures ask did their conduct meet the standard; the Pillars ask is this someone worthy to be elevated and followed at all. The two can diverge, when they do, the divergence is the finding.
| # | Pillar | Score | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| I | Trust & Loyalty
| 6 | why?Attributes: Steadiness, Diligence, strong attendance and routine institutional reliability for a first-termer, with no documented breach of trust. No standout sacrifice anchor and no drag; an honest middle. |
| II | Aspiration & Integrity
| 6 | why?Attributes: Conviction, Authenticity, competent committee work and bipartisan co-leads weigh positive; a mild Consistency note from the documented policy-position shifts (a policy matter, not scored as conduct) keeps it at the middle rather than higher. |
| III | Protection & Influence
| 5 | why?Attributes: Stewardship, Accountability, the committee-jurisdiction trading appearance is a genuine Stewardship drag toward the appearance of self-interest. No exploitation finding and pre-office wealth is not penalized, but the appearance and the absence of an accountability record hold this pillar just below the middle. |
| IV | Legacy & Virtue
| 6 | why?Attributes: Integrity, Diligence, an early, largely clean institutional legacy with credible substantive work, carrying a single trading-appearance asterisk and too short a record to establish a durable pattern either way. |
| TOTAL: Weak | 23/40 |
Total 23/40, an honest middle. The pillars track the conduct composite closely: real institutional diligence and bipartisan cooperation, drawn down by the office-attributable trading appearance and a short record with no offsetting accountability arc yet.
What the Four Pillars are & the questions behind each →
In their own words
“Provisions of the Dismantling Foreign Scam Syndicates Act were included in the bipartisan State Department Reauthorization Bill.”
House Foreign Affairs Committee, bipartisan anti-scam legislation advancing · Rep. Shreve official press release · CIVIC · cite
“A financial advisor manages these trades to ensure compliance with federal laws.”
Office response to scrutiny of committee-jurisdiction stock trades during tariff volatility · NOTUS reporting on post-tariff trades · CONTESTED · cite
Full personnel file
1. Identity
Jefferson Scott Shreve (born September 24, 1965, Indianapolis). U.S. Representative for Indiana's 6th Congressional District since January 2025 (R). Founder of Storage Express (sold to Extra Space Storage, 2022). Member, Indianapolis City-County Council 2013-2016 and 2018-2020. Republican nominee for Mayor of Indianapolis in 2023 (lost to incumbent Joe Hogsett). B.A. Indiana University; M.A. University of London; M.B.A. Purdue Krannert. Committees: Transportation & Infrastructure; Foreign Affairs.
2. Voting / Legislative Profile
First-term member (119th Congress). Strong floor attendance, 9 of 548 roll calls missed (1.6%), better than the chamber median. Has sponsored 13 bills in his first term, with several bipartisan co-leads: the BANNED in Latin America Act with Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and the Rural Animal Shelter Investment Act with Rep. Shomari Figures (D-AL). The Dismantling Foreign Scam Syndicates Act advanced via the State Department Reauthorization, and authored measures were folded into the FY2026 NDAA. The 2023 mayoral gun-control proposals and the 2016/2023 position shifts are recorded as policy and expressly NOT scored, per the framework's refusal to grade policy in either direction.
3. Constitutional Moments
None of consequence on record, in either direction. Seated January 2025, Shreve could not have signed the December 2020 Texas v. Pennsylvania amicus and is not on that signatory list; no election-subversion, fake-elector, or certification-defiance conduct is documented. No oath-defining stand at personal cost is on record either, the tenure is short.
4. Rhetoric & Discourse Profile
Plain, business-administrator register with no documented pattern of inflammatory, dehumanizing, or enemy-making speech. The contested element is a policy-position reversal on firearms across his 2016, 2023, and 2025-26 runs, a stance change, not a conduct or truthfulness finding, and not scored here.
5. Fiduciary Profile
The central conduct concern. In his first months in office Shreve executed 140-plus personal stock trades worth between $3.44M and $9.45M, including in CSX, Uber, and Schneider National, companies under his Transportation & Infrastructure Committee jurisdiction, during tariff-driven market volatility, with several positions appreciating sharply afterward. Disclosure was STOCK Act-compliant and no SEC, DOJ, or Ethics action has been brought; it is weighed as an appearance-of-impropriety concern, not a finding. His pre-office wealth (the ~$590M Storage Express sale) is NOT penalized, only the office-information-trade appearance is. The advisor-managed account is noted as mitigation but does not dissolve the appearance.
6. Severity-Class Conduct
No documented Severity-class conduct under any of the eight criteria. No process subversion (the December 2020 amicus predates his 2025 seating; he is not a signatory) and no sustained enemy-making or incitement pattern. The stock-trading matter is an uncharged appearance-concern, not a criterion-class flag. Flag count: zero.
7. What The Framework Says
An honest middle, and a useful one. Shreve's early floor record is clean and even modestly creditable, strong attendance, real bipartisan co-leads, substantive committee output, and no election-subversion, abuse-of-power, or enemy-making conduct. The standard does not reward the policy flips or the self-funded campaigns, and it does not punish his pre-office wealth. What it does weigh is the office-attributable trading appearance: a large, rapid run of trades in committee-jurisdiction firms during a volatile window, disclosed lawfully and uncharged but precisely the self-dealing-appearance category the fiduciary measures exist to catch. With no offsetting accountability record yet, that holds him in the Adequate band rather than the support tier. Recorded honestly, with the door open for the record to improve.
8. Sources & Where To Look Deeper
Tier 1 (primary): Congress.gov member profile · House Financial Disclosure / Periodic Transaction Reports
Tier 2: NOTUS, News of the United States · Ballotpedia · GovTrack
Research links: Congress.gov member profile · Ballotpedia · GovTrack · NOTUS, post-tariff stock trades · Wikipedia
Scores derive from the fixed Constitutional Weight Schedule. The bar does not move. Conduct, not party.