I'm Just a Bill: Congressional Stock Trading Ban

👀 I’m Just a Bill — Congressional Stock Trading Ban

A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster

What is this bill?

Congressional stock-trading ban legislation in the 119th Congress (multiple competing versions). Addresses documented patterns of Members of Congress trading stocks in companies their committees oversee.

What does it actually do?

  • Prohibits Members of Congress (and immediate family in some versions) from individual stock trading
  • Permits diversified mutual funds, ETFs, U.S. Treasuries
  • Blind-trust requirements for individual-stock holdings during service
  • Penalties for violations

How does this affect cooperative-class families?

Composes with Federal-Congressional Body Cam doctrine (transparency at the legislative branch). Composes with cooperative’s broader anti-extraction structural commitment.

Shirley Temple Truth Score

🟡 Provisional.


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