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A Senate committee on Wednesday narrowly approved legislation banning members of Congress, the president, vice president, and their immediate families from trading or owning individual stocks and other financial assets, escalating a partisan clash over political ethics and Donald Trump’s financial interests. The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted …

A financial watchdog group on Tuesday released its annual report on congressional stock trading, which shows that “Congress blew the market out of the water” in 2023, fueling fresh calls for a ban targeting U.S. lawmakers and their immediate family members. “Members of Congress shouldn’t be allowed to trade stocks …

The government watchdog Accountable.US reported Friday that a majority of incumbent members in the U.S. House of Representatives filed extensions this year for their 2022 financial disclosures, a revelation that comes as congressional Democrats are leading multiple bills that would ban lawmakers and their relatives from stock trading and other …

Four members of the U.S. House of Representatives from across the political spectrum came together on Tuesday to introduce the Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act, which would ban federal lawmakers and their immediate relatives from owning and trading stocks. Momentum for such a ban has been growing in the …