Lawmakers hoping to ban congressional stock trading are seeing fractures in their alliance as they try to bring the issue to the House floor next year before attention turns to the midterm elections.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., accused Democratic leaders of trying to derail consensus legislation hammered out by a bipartisan group earlier this year and teased a new plan from the Republican side.
“Hakeem Jeffries actively worked against the consensus bill … which is so crazy,” she said as she emerged from a Thursday afternoon meeting in the speaker’s office. “So we’re gonna get this done and get this through anyways, without his help.”
