Ban Members of Congress from Trading Stocks

Time and time again, members of Congress have made suspicious stock trades that ended up padding their own pockets.

Sen. Richard Burr, for example, sold between $628,000 and $1.7 million worth of personal stock holdings in mid-February 2022, raising suspicions that he was acting on classified information about COVID-19, which was about to hit the United States in a big way.

That’s why Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Pramila Jayapal introduced the Bipartisan Ban on Congressional Stock Ownership Act, which prohibits members of Congress from owning individual stocks at all.

Sign our petition if you agree that members of Congress shouldn’t be able to trade individual stocks.