Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has filed a “discharge petition” to force a vote on a bill that would ban members of Congress and their families from trading individual stocks.
If it gets the necessary 218 signatures, the petition would force House Speaker Mike Johnson to bring a stock-ban bill to the floor for a vote.
The discharge petition moves to force a vote on a bill that would “prohibit stock trading and ownership by Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children, and for other purposes.” The petition specifically calls for the consideration the Restore Trust in Congress Act — a measure that supportive lawmakers lauded as a bipartisan compromise.