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A bipartisan group of House members has unveiled new legislation that would ban lawmakers from trading individual stocks. For more than a decade, a series of bills have been proposed to address such ...

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A long-awaited stock trading ban passed through the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on Wednesday, with committee Democrats joining with the bill's sponsor, Sen. Josh Hawley, ...

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