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Americans demand congressional stock ban in latest Daily Mail poll
- Latest development shows lawmakers’ large stock moves fueling renewed calls to ban congressional trading.
- A House Representative co-chairs the semiconductor policy caucus traded over a million dollars in chip stocks.
- Another lawmaker bought Exxon shares just weeks before Iran-related energy stock gains.
- A senator overseeing antitrust enforcement held up to $5 million in NVIDIA stock.
- Another Democratic senator on the Agriculture Committee traded General Mills stock up to $500,000.
- Experts say Congress should ban stock trading to restore public trust, given disclosure timelines are sometimes missed.
- Polls show majority of voters support a ban on insider trading in Congress.
- Disclosed trades included NVIDIA, Exxon, and General Mills among others.
- The piece notes that the STOCK Act penalties remain a topic in proposed reforms.
- The article frames the trades within a broader debate on lawmakers’ access to nonpublic information.
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