Joe Holleman | Post-Dispatch
Political correspondent/columnist
An effort by U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley to ban members of Congress from trading stocks received some welcome news from the other side of the Capitol.
GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson recently聽 that he is 鈥渙pen to the conversation鈥 about banning stock trades by sitting congressional members.
Johnson told NPR, 鈥淚t鈥檚 been talked about for quite some time. But there鈥檚 probably a reason that the bill hasn鈥檛 moved in all those years because there鈥檚 never been a consensus built around it.鈥
As to consensus, now more than 40 of Johnson鈥檚 House colleagues have signed onto an anti-trading bill earlier this year that mirrors Hawley鈥檚 Senate proposal.
One of is聽U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Democrat from Kansas City.
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Hawley鈥檚 bill would require members of Congress, their spouses and dependent children to either divest from individual stock holdings or move them into a qualified blind trust.
This is Hawley鈥檚 second attempt at enacting such a measure. Last year, a bill brough forth by him and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York did not make it through the legislative process.
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