Reform No. 05
Ban Congressional Stock Trading
Prohibit members of Congress, their spouses, and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks.
of sitting members with a documented cosponsorship, signature or vote
170 of 539 members
Voter figures: U. of Maryland PPC, May 2023.
The one vote leadership can't block.
Cosponsoring a bill costs a member nothing. Leadership can leave it in committee for the rest of the Congress and never schedule a vote, and that is exactly what has happened here. A discharge petition is the one tool that takes that choice away from them: at 218 signatures, the bill goes to the floor whether leadership wants it there or not.The petition on H.R. 1908 has 82 signatures from sitting members.
signatures, 136 short
Who signed
What this count does and does not say
Several competing bills would ban congressional stock trading, and they differ on real questions: divestment or blind trusts, whether spouses are covered, whether the ban reaches the President. This petition would force a vote on H.R. 1908 specifically. A member who backed one of the other bills, or who is holding out for a broader ban, has a reason not to sign that is not indifference. Counted here is only what the record shows: who signed this petition, and who cosponsored this bill.
Download the signatures (CSV): all 82, with party, state, district, and whether each also cosponsored H.R. 1908. Verified against the House Clerk's petition record, filed by Anna Paulina Luna.
Vehicle in the 119th Congress
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Restore Trust in Congress Act
House · HR 5106 · 119th Congress
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Restore Trust in Congress Act (Senate companion)
Senate · S 3649 · 119th Congress
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End Congressional Stock Trading Act
House · HR 1908 · 119th Congress
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HONEST Act
Senate · S 1498 · 119th Congress
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ETHICS Act
House · HR 4890 · 119th Congress
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No Stock Act
Senate · S 2877 · 119th Congress
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Drain the Swamp Act (Title I)
House · HR 9222 · 119th Congress
Related bills not counted
Stop Insider Trading Act
House ·HR 7008
Bans only future purchases and adds a 7-day sale-disclosure requirement; lets members keep existing holdings indefinitely. Falls short of the reform's full ban on ownership.
Stop Insider Trading Act
Senate ·S 4134
Senate companion to H.R. 7008. Bans only future purchases and adds a 7-day sale-disclosure requirement; lets members keep existing holdings indefinitely. Falls short of the reform's full ban on ownership.
Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act
Senate ·S 1879
Requires placement of assets into a qualified blind trust rather than divestment. Members retain beneficial ownership and continue to profit from stocks while a trustee makes the trades.
PELOSI Act
House ·HR 3388
Bans stock holdings by members and spouses but omits dependent children, falling short of the reform's full-family standard.
TRUST in Congress Act
House ·HR 396
It has more than 100 cosponsors, but it requires members, spouses, and dependent children to place holdings in a qualified blind trust rather than divest. As with the Senate blind-trust bill above, members retain beneficial ownership and profit while a trustee trades, so it falls short of the reform's full-divestment standard.
Ban on Members and spouses trading stock
House ·HR 3182
Prohibits trading by members and their spouses but omits dependent children, the same family-scope gap the PELOSI Act is dismissed for above, and falls short of the reform's full-family standard.
NO STOCK Resolution
House ·H.Res. 491
Amends House Rule XXIII so that a Member, Delegate or Resident Commissioner may not own the common stock of any individual public corporation. That is genuine divestment rather than a blind trust, but it reaches only the member: spouses and dependent children are untouched, the same gap that keeps the PELOSI Act off this list. It also binds the House alone and changes no law, so it could not reach the Senate even if adopted.
Senate stock-trading rules change (Ossoff)
Senate ·S.Res. 784
Amends Senate Rule XXXVII so that from January 2027 no Senator may buy or sell a publicly traded stock or cryptocurrency. It bars trading and not ownership, so a Senator keeps whatever they already hold, and it covers the Senator alone rather than spouses and dependent children. It also binds the Senate alone and changes no law.
What it does
The Restore Trust in Congress Act (H.R. 5106, as introduced) would prohibit members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks, give them 180 days after enactment to divest, and fine anyone who violates it and take the profits. The HONEST Act (S. 1498), as reported in the Senate, would also cover the president and the vice president.
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