A new poll found that a majority of voters support banning members of Congress from trading stocks while in office.
released on Wednesday similarly found that a majority of voters are in favor of the proposal. Sixty-three percent of voters surveyed said that members of Congress shouldn’t be allowed to trade stocks; once again, support for such a proposal came from a bipartisan majority of voters.of polls that have yielded similar results in recent weeks; most Americans, it seems, agree that members of Congress shouldn’t be allowed to trade stocks.
Recently, some Democrats have been pushing for a stock trading ban for members of Congress. Last week, Senators Jon Ossoff and Mark Kelly introduced a billlawmakers and their families to move their stock portfolio into a blind trust when they took office and divest from investments that couldn’t be put in the trust.
The bill’s introduction came after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected the idea of banning stock trading for lawmakers, saying, “we’re a free market economy.” Her commentsPelosi is among the most active stock traders in Congress, and
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