This is not an idea unique to @reptimburchett , other bills did this in the past (like ossoff’s) — but regardless of whose bill it is, banning Congress from trading stocks is the right thing to do.
Anyone who opposes this is unfit for office.
Anyone who opposes this is unfit for office.
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This is absolutely a bipartisan problem. I'd say "multi-partisan", but there are no members from other parties. (There are a couple of Independents.)
She and her husband did an unusually bad job of ‘insider trading’ compared to any of the MAGA billionaires.
#Krasnov costs $150M/yr golfing
Hawley and MAGA Senators (it got past Schumer) sent a bill down to the MAGA House in ‘24 but MAGA Moses Mike Johnson refused it.
I just googled this and learned that Hawley managed an acronym for his bill so they could call it the PELOSI Act. Fun and games
That's good. Means they handed trading to an independent third party.
It doesn't look like he has any cosponsors for his, that I can see.
Makes it seem a bit of hollow, political theater. He didn't sign onto a bill with 45 cosponsors and then submits a bill himself, which I can't find the text of, doomed for failure.
No. I’ll never believe there isn’t some kind of foul play…
Never trusting a republican again.
Probably doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in Hades of passing into law.
He called @aoc.bsky.social "friend". Absolutely not the dark side of conservatives with terrible opinions.
After Zelensky he wore his trademark barn coat to the WH. No one objected.
But also, we should ban stock trading by members of congress
I can’t stand.
Like just be you.
He won’t answer calls and he isn’t hosting town halls.
He serves at our pleasure. We don’t have a Constitutional mechanism to remove him, but we do have a means to make our collective voices heard.
Please sign and share!
https://www.change.org/p/instigate-a-recall-of-senator-rick-scott-for-neglecting-constituent-concerns
Now introduce a bill mandating that Representatives use their own state's Medicaid as their only health care option.
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https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/gop-representative-blackmail-honeypot-congress-b2468559.html
Hahahahah!
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It will die quickly.
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https://www.marketbeat.com/congress-stock-trades/profiles/mark-green/