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What this bill does
AI plain-language summaryThis bill would stop members of Congress, along with their spouses and dependent children, from buying stocks in publicly traded companies. If they want to sell stocks they already own, the member of Congress must publicly announce the planned sale 7 to 14 days ahead of time. Anyone who breaks these rules would have to pay a fee equal to the greater of $2,000 or 10% of the transaction's value, plus any profits they made, and that fee cannot be paid with campaign money or official congressional funds. Some types of investments are excluded from these rules, such as broad investment funds, and spouses and dependents get certain exceptions for transactions done as part of their job compensation or on behalf of someone else.
How The Bill Is Being Covered
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Your Vote
How Representatives Voted
Jul 22, 2026Users: 51% YES · 51
Users: 73% YES · 15
Users: 59% YES · 22
Discussion (15)
Explain what is at stake in this bill.
Why would a voter id provision be in a stock trading bill?
If I hadn’t seen your comment, I wouldn’t have known this was in there. The AI overview doesn’t mention it. Even the summary of the bill on the government site doesn’t mention it. You have to read the bill to see it. I wish the overviews were written by humans.
This is so incredibly messed up and wrong. Did you have to read the entire bill to find this??
yes - i read through the bill text. it's insane that politicians keep trying to sneak this stuff by us.
SEC 303A PHOTO IDENTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS! What does that have to do with insider trading?! Stop sneaking bs in with good policies!
Insanity.
There are other issues piggybacking on what seems at face value like a sensible bill.
Quit tacking on other issues or piggybacking off the bill. One issue one bill.
I did not know voter id was added to the bill. I would have voted no if that was included in the summary.
Being honest and transparent I actually voted yes then went in and changed my vote after reading comments. I did not see that there was a voter ID provision in the bill and would not have caught it without the comments. So sneaky and they should not be combined on a bill.
Single issue bills. Period.
Definitely voting no out of the shady voter id law attached to this; asking to be educated, couldn’t states choose to ignore that portion as their is no direct mandate to turn in the ID’s to the federal government? As states have the final power on voting laws?
This will remove the conflict of interest in legislation which would disallow unjust enrichment to a member of Congress.
Sneaky sneaky sneaky. Bills need to be straightforward. Stop sneaking in voter ID whenever and whenever you can. Shameful.
After reading several comments, it appears that voter id is snuck in there. In spite of the republican rhetoric, there is little evidence of voter fraud. Sadly, the Republican Party operates on fear of the boogeyman tactics.