Reform No. 05

Ban Congressional Stock Trading

Prohibit members of Congress, their spouses, and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks.

31%

of Congress documented cosponsoring this reform

167 of 536 members

CongressVoters

Democrats

47%88%

Republicans

16%87%

Independents

33%81%

Voter figures: U. of Maryland PPC, 2023.

Who said yes, then didn't sign.

Cosponsoring a bill costs a member nothing. Leadership can leave it in committee for the rest of the Congress and never schedule a vote. 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. So the members who put their name on the bill and then declined to sign the petition are the ones worth looking at, and they sit in both parties.

157

House members on record supporting this reform

of them signed the petition to force a vote

218

signatures the petition needs to succeed

supporters who did not sign

Where they sit

Democrats

Republicans

Name all 75

Democrats · 48

Republicans · 27

Download the list (CSV) →Signatures verified against the House Clerk's petition record, filed by Anna Paulina Luna.

Vehicle in the 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.
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.

What it does

The HONEST Act (Senate) and Restore Trust in Congress Act (House) would prohibit members of Congress, the president, the vice president, and their spouses and dependent children from holding or trading individual stocks, require divestment beginning in 2027, and raise the late-filing penalty under the STOCK Act.

How members will be scored

Recorded as supporting if they are a cosponsor of either bill, signed the Luna discharge petition (House), or have a documented public commitment to a divestment requirement.

Where Congress stands.

How this is scored

A member counts as Supports if they sponsored or cosponsored Restore Trust in Congress Act (H.R. 5106), or one of six bills that carry it, signed a discharge petition to force one to a floor vote, or cosponsored a matching bill in an earlier Congress while still serving today. Everyone else is Unknown: no documented signal, which is not the same as opposition. Floor votes aren't scored, so nobody is marked Opposes.

Support here counts cosponsorship of these specific bills, which not every backer of the underlying reform has signed. A low or empty figure can mean a member hasn't cosponsored this vehicle, not that they oppose the reform.

Which bills count

Restore Trust in Congress Act (H.R. 5106)
Restore Trust in Congress Act (Senate companion) (S. 3649)
End Congressional Stock Trading Act (H.R. 1908)
HONEST Act (S. 1498)
ETHICS Act (H.R. 4890)
No Stock Act (S. 2877)

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