Dozens of House Democrats reject bill fusing congressional stock ban with federal voter ID

A vote connected legislation to curb lawmakers' expertise to profit from nan banal marketplace arsenic good arsenic implementing national elector ID measures divided House Democrats connected Wednesday afternoon.

The 2 measures were mixed successful a azygous legislative package aft months of statement successful nan House of Representatives connected some issues. While unrelated, some elector ID and banning legislature banal trading person received overwhelming support successful aggregate nationalist polls.

Despite bipartisan negotiations, peculiarly connected banning members of Congress from trading stocks, a important number of Democrats still opposed nan last package — though it passed.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said during a news convention astatine nan U.S. Capitol connected July 13, 2026, successful Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, 1 of nan cardinal supporters of banning lawmakers from nan banal market, based on nan 2 issues "go manus successful hand."

"One, nan overwhelming mostly of Americans want this. Two, it's thing that we tin get passed this week that gets it into nan president's hands earlier nan August return-to-district [period]," Nunn told Fox News Digital.

He said of Democrats' criticism, "Only successful Washington tin you person 2 wins for 90% of Americans, and Democrats will opportunity that's 1 triumph excessively many."

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Meanwhile, Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., told Fox News Digital of nan banal trading prohibition specifically, "The American group merit to cognize their elected officials are serving nan public, not their ain financial interests. Members of Congress should beryllium held to nan highest standards of transparency and accountability, and this authorities is an important measurement toward restoring spot successful Congress."

Not each Republicans are connected board, however. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., accused his chap GOP lawmakers of trying to dissuade Democrats from supporting nan measure by attaching nan elector ID requirement.

"We are voting connected a banal trading prohibition for members of Congress… BUT Republicans added voter-ID successful nan legislation. Not to get Dems to ballot for voter-ID, but to get them to ballot against nan banal trading ban, truthful they tin usage it successful nan Nov. election," Massie wrote connected X. "If we really wanted to prohibition banal trading for members of Congress, we would connection guidelines unsocial authorities and could get a ample bipartisan majority, and nan measure would person a chance of passing connected nan Senate."

Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, speaks during a news convention astatine nan U.S. Capitol successful Washington, D.C., connected Oct. 15, 2025. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg)

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An August 2025 canvass from nan Pew Research Center showed that 83% of U.S. respondents favored "requiring each voters to show government-issued photograph recognition to vote." 

But Democrats person based on this week that the elector ID portion goes excessively far, and nan banal trading prohibition information does not spell acold enough.

"I've said repeatedly, House Democrats powerfully support a banal trading prohibition for members of Congress. We besides support a prohibition connected nan president, nan vice president and national judicial officers from trading individual banal arsenic well. But nary of that is earlier america today," Rep. Joe Morelle, D-N.Y., nan apical Democrat connected nan committee charged pinch elections oversight, said during statement connected nan measure Monday.

"Rather, this measure is simply a crude operation of 2 wholly unrelated bills, nan alleged Stop Insider Trading Act and the Voter ID Act, nan second of which is already a crude reformulation of astatine slightest 3 different grounded Republican voter  suppression proposals."

Democrats are criticizing nan elector ID information for its request of recognition extending to mail-in voting, which they person based on is simply a way to suppress Americans' expertise to formed ballots that way.

Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, anterior to a news convention extracurricular nan U.S. Capitol successful Washington, D.C., connected Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025.  (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Left-wing lawmakers person attacked nan banal trading measure because it does not require members of Congress to waste their existing stocks but alternatively bans them from buying much banal successful nan future.

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Lawmakers must besides spell done a nationalist disclosure process earlier trading that existing stock.

While it extends nan prohibition connected buying caller stocks to lawmakers and their families, it efficaciously allows them to clasp a unsighted trust. Democrats person besides complained that it does not widen to nan executive branch, namely, President Donald Trump and his family.