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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