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A bipartisan group of senators came together around a single stock trading ban bill this past summer, and two years ago, the House almost took a vote on a bill hastily put forward by House ...
A bipartisan group of senators announced a deal on a congressional stock trading ban aimed at preventing members from profiting from insider knowledge.
In a new interview with Yahoo Finance taped on Jan. 27, progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explained why it's difficult to convince lawmakers to rein their own stock trading.
The 2020 congressional insider trading scandal was a political scandal in the United States involving allegations that several members of the United States Senate violated the STOCK Act by selling stock at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and just before a stock market crash on February 20, 2020, using knowledge given to them at a closed Senate meeting.
President Joe Biden lent his voice to growing bipartisan calls on the Hill to end stock trading for congressional members on Tuesday. "I don't know how you look your constituents in the eye and ...
The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112–105 (text), S. 2038, 126 Stat. 291, enacted April 4, 2012) is an Act of Congress designed to combat insider trading. It was signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 4, 2012.
The government watchdog group Common Cause filed complaints with the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Senate Ethics Committee, alleging possible violations of the STOCK Act and insider trading laws in the matter of stock sales by Loeffler and three other senators, Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, and Dianne Feinstein ...
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.