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WASHINGTON — Advocates for tightening the rules on stock trading among members of Congress gained steam Wednesday with the announcement of a fresh bipartisan Senate bill and Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressing an appetite for changes. But whether lawmakers will be prohibited from trading individual company stocks is still unclear.

Democratic leaders in the House and Senate expressed their support for a ban on congressional stock trades this week.

‘This is not a highly complex area of law,’ Democratic senatorJon Ossoff tells The Independent

This adds unprecedented momentum to an issue that also has bipartisan support on the Senate side.

As a frightening new virus began spreading around the world in early 2020, a few lawmakers made some very well-timed stock trades.

The group plans to issue a report, including legislative recommendations, before this fall's midterms.

Members of the U.S. House voted to pass a bill Friday that would appropriate $52 billion for domestic semiconductor chip manufacturing, teeing up debate with the Senate before the policy can become law.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats used a mostly party-line vote Friday to pass broad legislation aimed at boosting science and technology investments for several federal agencies, in an attempt to position the country to better compete with China.

House Democrats vowed to clear a path for staffers working in the chamber to form a union, as pay and inequity issues reached a fever pitch.

Move was response to representatives’ involvement in House select committee investigating Capitol attack

Democrat also accused IOC for turning a ‘blind eye’ to Uyghurs