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Stop Insider Trading Act

Floor Speech

Date: July 22, 2026
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. SUBRAMANYAM. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, the American people have lost trust in this institution, and banning stock trading in Congress and in the administration is actually one way to fix that.

In 2025, Members of Congress and their families executed over 13,000 trades. President Trump's own family trading has helped add billions to their net worth.

That is why we should be debating a real stock trading ban like the Restore Trust in Government Act, one that would ban Members of Congress, the administration, and their families from owning, buying, or selling individual stocks.

Instead, House Republicans only allow us to vote on a toothless, watered-down stock trading bill. Plus, to make sure that this fake stock trading ban doesn't move in the Senate, they throw in the SAVE America Act, which would disenfranchise millions of Americans.

I ask: Why are we afraid to put a comprehensive stock trading ban on the floor and have it apply to the President, too?

Let's vote on a real stock trading ban and vote ``no'' on this fake ban with voter suppression.

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