The House of Representatives voted 232 to 198 on 22 July to bar members of Congress, their spouses and their dependents from buying individual stocks, a measure President Donald Trump had publicly urged it to pass. The bill exempts the president, the vice president, and the rest of the executive branch.
Trump has been consistent on the first half of that. He told Congress in February to pass the legislation without delay, arguing that lawmakers should not be able to profit from information only they hold, and he told an interviewer last year that he would put his signature to one, citing Nancy Pelosi by name.
