US House Passes Steil’s Congressional Stock Trading Ban
The measure would ban some congressional stock trades and impose new federal voter ID and absentee ballot rules, drawing Democratic criticism.
- On Wednesday, the House passed a GOP-led bill in a 232-198 vote restricting congressional stock trading while imposing new voter identification requirements for federal elections.
- Republicans attached voter ID provisions to the legislation, a move House Administration ranking member Joseph D. Morelle called a "poison pill" that allows lawmakers to retain existing stock holdings.
- Opposing the measure, House Democrats criticized the bill, with Representative Pramila Jayapal labeling it a "fake stock trading ban" that "does not block insider trading, no matter what it's called."
- Speaker Mike Johnson praised the bill Tuesday as a solution restoring trust, providing Republicans a messaging victory ahead of midterm elections as lawmakers head home for August recess.
- The legislation now faces an uncertain path in the narrowly split Senate, where 60 votes are required for passage and voter ID provisions present a significant hurdle.
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US House passes Steil’s congressional stock trading ban
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House has approved legislation authored by Wisconsin Congressman Bryan Steil that would ban members of Congress and their immediate families from purchasing individual stocks. The Stop Insider Trading Act passed the House on a bipartisan 232-198 vote. The bill would prohibit lawmakers, their spouses and dependent children from buying publicly traded […] The post US House passes Steil’s congressional stock trading ban appear…
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A majority of House and Senate Republicans have been trying to pass legislation that 75-80 percent of the American people on both sides of the aisle want, but a year later, it still hasn’t reached President Trump’s desk. Of course, we’re talking about the SAVE America Act, with its provisions for federal voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements as election-integrity upgrades. On Wednesday, the House passed legislation to implement voter id…
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