GOP Lawmaker Was Busy Buying Amazon Stock as Economy Was Shutting Down Last Year Rep. Dan Crenshaw speaks during a hearing before the House Committee on Homeland Security on Capitol Hill on July 22, 2020, in Washington D.C. Anna Moneymaker-Pool / Getty Images New reporting has found that Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) traded stocks for the first time as a member of Congress during March 2020, while Congress was negotiating and voting on the CARES Act. Crenshaw bought six stocks in March 2020, five of which he bought between March 25 and 27, the days that both chambers of Congress voted on and passed the CARES Act,