It's behind an insta-paywall sorry.GOP Leader McCarthy may institute ban on lawmakers trading stocks if Republicans retake House
While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has defended congressional stock trading, Kevin McCarthy is considering banning the practicewww.marketwatch.com
That's good if there's anything to it, but (at this point at least) I don't believe it to be anything other than a few empty words. It doesn't fit with their mentality or philosophy. AOC sounds credible when she rails against it - it fits in with her mentality and with her brand. McCarthy giving lip service to maybe thinking about talking about it in a couple of years, IF he gets in? (which he will). Eh, that's better than flat out rejecting the idea or blanking it completely, but I just can't see that being any kind of a real thing in today's GOP.
A little soundbite about "yeah that sounds like something I might look at looking at, sometime down the line maybe" is nice, let's see some legislation being drafted before we start giving credit eh?
The old guard of geriatric insider cronies that has a death grip on the levers of power in the Dems doesn't want a bar of this, and the GOP? Who on their side is going to crusade for this?
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