President Biden in a new interview published Tuesday said there should be a ban on members of Congress trading stocks, taking a position on an issue that has entered the spotlight in recent years.



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Biden calls for ban on congressional stock trading

President Joe Biden has endorsed a ban on congressional stock trading in an interview that’s being released this week. It's the first time he's publicly backed the idea.

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President Joe Biden has endorsed a ban on congressional stock trading in an interview that’s being released this week

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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has endorsed a ban on congressional stock trading in an interview that’s being released this week. It’s the first time he’s publicly backed the idea. He made the comments to Faiz Shakir, a political adviser for Sen. Bernie Sanders. Shakir interviewed the Democratic president for A More Perfect Union, a pro-labor advocacy and journalism organization. The Associated Press reviewed a video of t…

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President Joe Biden has declared his support for banning sitting members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from trading stock.

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Biden finally breaks silence on congressional stock trading: ‘I don’t know how you look your constituents in the eye’

President Joe Biden endorsed banning members of Congress from trading stocks, throwing his waning political capital behind long-running efforts to prevent lawmakers from profiting off of their unique access to market-moving information.

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Biden supports a ban on congressional stock trading

President Biden in a new interview published Tuesday said there should be a ban on members of Congress trading stocks, taking a position on an issue that has entered the spotlight in recent years. “I don’t know how you look your constituents in the eye and know because the job they gave you, it gave…

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Outgoing President Joe Biden is now calling for a ban on stock trading by members of Congress. Biden, who will depart the White House next month, endorsed such a ban during an interview that was released on Tuesday. Bipartisan legislation banning members from trading individual stocks has been introduced in Congress, although it hasn’t come to a floor vote. Biden said that the law should be changed at the federal level so that “nobody in the Con…

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After initially declining to take a position on the issue, on Dec. 17 President Joe Biden expressed support for a ban on Congressional stock trading.
“I don’t know how you look your constituents in the eye and know because the job they gave you, it gave you an inside track to make more money,” he told Democratic strategist Faiz Shakir in an interview.
“I think we should be changing the law … that nobody in the Congress should be able to make mon…

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Biden Expresses Support for Congressional Stock Trading Ban

For the first time, President Joe Biden expressed support for banning members of Congress from trading stocks.Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden expressed support for a stock trading ban in Congress for the first time."Nobody in the Congress should be able to make money in the stock market," he said.Lawmakers have been trying to enact a stock trading ban for years.With just a few weeks left in his tenure, President Joe Biden expressed…

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Biden backs congressional stock-trading ban with just weeks left in office

President Joe Biden said in an interview published in part Tuesday that he is in favor of a ban on stock trading by members of Congress, taking a position on...

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