Senators strike bipartisan deal for a ban on stock trading

 

Senators strike bipartisan deal for a ban on stock trading by members of Congress

• A bipartisan group of senators reached a new agreement on legislation that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks.
• The deal would forbid members of Congress their spouses and dependent children, as well as the president and vice president, from purchasing and selling stocks while in office.
• The proposal is the latest chapter in a yearslong saga to limit lawmakers’ ability to play the stock market. Ethics experts say that legislators’ access to the kind of information they receive gives them the potential of having an unfair advantage to the investing public.
• https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/10/senators-strike-bipartisan-deal-for-a-ban-on-stock-trading-by-members-of-congress.html