RetroFedHouse passes bill to restrict lawmaker stock trading — but stops short of full ban
https://lite.cnn.com/2026/07/22/politics/stock-trading-restriction-congress
The measure prevents lawmakers, their spouses, and dependent children from buying new stocks of publicly traded companies while serving in Congress, which adds a new restriction on a highly controversial practice.
Under the legislation, lawmakers can still buy private stocks, keep stocks they already owned prior to entering Congress and maintain certain investment funds. Selling stock would require a seven-to-14-day advance notice. If the new rules are violated, the lawmaker would have to pay a fee of $2,000 or 10% of the value of the transaction, whichever is greater, and forfeit the profit from the trade.
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10% tax on your insider trading?
And people say Somalia is corrupt.
aarch0x40Don’t forget about the part that restricts voting rights!!
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The principal intent of this bill appears to be to sneak in the voting restrictions from the justifiably-foundering SAVE Act. It got stuffed into this seemingly popular but fundamentally flawed legislative vapor that does very little to stop insider trading of very many kinds.
This doesn’t say much about either of those things directly but contains links to more detailed analysis of both the voter disenfranchisement and the market trading corruption: https://rawstory.com/aoc-voting
Distraction. They did the Israeli military integration ndaa and the voter suppression (save America act)!!