More than two dozen members of the House of Representatives have called on leadership to bring a bill aimed at banning members from trading and owning individual stocks to the floor.
, but this glaring problem will not go away until it is fixed and Congress should not delay when we have the power to fix it.”
Sens. James Inhofe and Dianne Feinstein were also among those whose transactions were scrutinized, though the DOJ again declined to take further action.Photo by Eric Lee-Pool/Getty Images However, the legislators who signed Monday’s letter insisted that the 2020 controversy showed “the current rules are not working.”
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