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Advance knowledge of legislative workings that can impact the market quite heavily. It's  information that the CEOs don't even get.
I am baffled that this hasn’t been banned for almost a century. It’s so obvious that this allows for dark money to be handed over and promises made to drip secrets to benefit investments.
The fact that this will not pass is proof enough for me. >

How do you think Pelosi made money? No chance. >

I know it’s how many of them made money. I am baffled how the stock market crash of 1929 didn’t carry with it new rules for Congress. >

Because Congress would've been responsible for making the new rules. They weren't about to limit their cash flow, even back then. >

“We’ve investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong.” >

It's amazing that's it's 2023 and we are just now discussing a potential ban on insider (Congress knows all bills affecting every business) trading.  This group of bandits just keeps raping and pillaging the American people. >

Stock act of 2012.. >

Which no one is following. Hence the renewed interest and public Congressional hearings from early 2022 in the wake of pandemic plundering and obvious insider trading. >

They are following it, its just that the penalties for violations are laughably tiny.  $200 if you fail to report a trade.  And that usually gets waived. >

Right, but there are many members of Congress who are not reporting trades which prompted public hearings in early 2022  (in the wake of all the trade scandals to come out of the pandemic).  So if members of Congress aren't reporting trades, or reporting months/years late - (as the committee hearings acknowledged) I would argue that they aren't following the rules. 
And yeah, if you're a member of Congress and make millions or save save millions based on non-public information, 200 dollars has as much value as 2 dollars for an average American middle income household.  It's a fine that is well worth paying if you even have to.
This self-regulating bill that has been on the books since 2012 and is largely ignored was designed to have no teeth. It doesn't help that Speaker McCarthy's first act was to gut the House's ability to conduct ethics investigations. >

To all the cynics, just STOP. 
This CAN be a good thing. A ban on insider trading getting traction means people's minds might be changing. Whether it's because they've dried the well, or our of genuine goodness, doesn't matter. Progress CAN happen. 
How long were women not allowed to vote? How long were POC afforded the same rights as your car? Shit can change. If you can't be hopeful, atleast don't try to ruin life for the rest of us >

We successfully passed the pure food and drug act!  I haven’t (as far as I know) ever had to eat beef fat labeled as butter! Things CAN improve >

I can't  belive it's  not beef fat butter.
Mmmm beef fat butter. >

I mean beef fat IS great but I expect to get butter when I buy butter >

"We've fucked 4 generations of working class families in their stupid fucking faces and the well seems to have slowed up. We're considering maybe slowing down. On paper, anyways." >

This about sums up my feelings. >

100% this. Then ban PACs and dark money groups. Then ban gerrymandering. 
Once completed you might be that much closer to a working democracy again. >

How about unequivocally passing laws that state money does not equal free speech and that corporations aren't people (Citizen's United) which is about as aptly named as most conservative bullshit (completely opposite of what it sounds like).  This was one of the most disastrous pieces of nonsense that the supreme court had ever decided >

100% in agreement. So many egregious attacks against democracy it’s hard to remember them all. >

Really proud she is my representative now. Go get ‘em Abigail! >

You know if this gains steam, it may show Americans that it’s not always party vs. party, it’s the minority of elected decent humans against the corporate shills and professional liars. 
Ban Citizens United, and end utility/finance/auto industry lobbyists vote buying while you’re at it. >

The cynic in me says that by the time this passes it will be gutted and rearranged to make it completely pointless. >

Facts. This is a giant waste of time and taxpayer dollars. There are a million ways to work around this, and they'll do it without hesitation. >

Good chance it's ignored, like the hatch act. >

I am embarrassed the prior Congress didn't get this done. Shame on them. At a minimum a blind trust should be required. >

second verse, same as the first >

Insider trading is illegal..however; Congress wrote another bill called the stock act..which failed. All congressional members need to be investigated and tried for their crimes the same as Martha Stewart was…it’s just criminal. >

Fantastic. >

I like her. We need more in congress like Spanberger. >

Why does this matter? They gutted the ethics office, so even if they pass it they've guaranteed its unenforceable. >

Lucy with the football..... >

Lucy has so many footballs and just loves  to play with them .. oh look, here comes the electorate... kick the football one more time electorate,  I promise this time will be different. >

Hope it goes as to keeping everyone honest .insider trading and hedge funds need to be stopped. >

This is one instance where the "both sides" argument holds true.  The American people should realize how bad it is that they can trade stocks and demand it becomes a law. >

How they could do it a lot easier is by saying it only applies to new members.  
IE grift for me, but not thee! >

Not likely, I'll believe it when I see it. Making money is all the GQP is about, except grievance, and even that is for making money off the rubes. >

How do think Nancy got rich? >

There shouldn't need to be momentum for this to happen, and, honestly, laws like this should be public referendum, not up to the very people who would be restricted by them >

When a bill is sent to committee, does the committee ever actually vote on the bill? Or does it just die in committee by being ignored. >

Please include the executive branch and the federal courts as well. >

Their children will just do it for them. This is just a distraction. >

I'll bet anyone $10,000 to your $1 that this does not happen. >

No way this passes under a house lead by  Speaker In Name Only Kevin McCarthy >

This is going nowhere! >

Set congressional term limits as well, please and thank you. >

Here is a secret. Congress is corrupt! >

Another Pelosi failure. >

It’s a good first step, but stock OWNING should also be banned at some point. The moment you start your campaign, you should be required to sell off all your stock and not be allowed to get any more until you’re permanently out of office. >

Smoke and mirrors. Banning stock trading will do very little to combat corruption in Washington, but it sounds good. >

I used to hope democrats would do something about this. Then, when the Clintons were in power, the Dems started replacing the Repubs as the party of corporate and big money. Now that the Dems have thrown the working and middle class under the bus, we can only hope that outliers will do something. They’ll be voted down by the likes of the Pelosi and McConnells and the rest of the Congressional crime families. >

Considering that Nancy Pelosi just cashed out 500k in tesla stock I believe it should also be retroactive. It's clearly an abuse of power through advance knowledge.
Edit: I had 3.6 bil. I got mixed up with Musk's insane selling. >

Advanced knowledge of what? Companies do not disclose things to Congress before reporting public earnings. Congress also doesn’t pass bills in secret, you can see all the work that they do, excluding intelligence matters. People love to circlejerk Pelosi being an inside trader and there is zero proof. It’s not a crime to make money through stocks. 
If she had inside information wouldn’t Pelosi have dumbed TSLA when it was a lot more valuable?