The congressional stock trading ban and its defeat in the Senate
Overview · reviewed October 28, 2026
In July 2026 the House passed the Stop Insider Trading Act, 232-198, which would bar members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from buying individual stocks, packaged with an unrelated voter ID measure backed by President Donald Trump.[1][2]In October it failed to reach the 60 votes needed to advance in the Senate after Democrats voted against it.[3]
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In October it failed to reach the 60 votes needed to advance in the Senate after Democrats voted against it.[3]
Coverage over time
Share of tracked outlets · weekly (UTC)
6%0%
Jul 20252026this week
LeftCenterRightLighter bar: this week so far
Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings. We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 2 more outlets off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.
Weekly counts, outlets and reports (4 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)
Left
Center
Right
Of tracked
Share
Receipts
Sep 28, 2026
4
14
11
29 of 476
6%
Sep 21, 2026
0
0
1
1 of 479
under 1%
Jul 20, 2026
7
18
10
35 of 562
6%
Jul 28, 2025
2
3
6
11 of 187
6%
Latest coverage
The newest reporting in this story's record.
Sep 29, 2026 · first reported · Headline from Newsweek
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley had pushed a stock trading bill in 2025, prompting a dustup with Trump that Hawley later called a misunderstanding.[4] Some House Democrats joined Republicans in the July vote,[5] but in the Senate, where the package needed 60 votes, Democrats voted against it.[2][3] Rep. Young Kim, a California Republican, separately targeted earmark loopholes that let lawmakers enrich themselves.[6]
