一个由两党参议员组成的小组周三达成协议，推动立法，禁止美国国会议员进行股票交易国会.
根据与ABC新闻分享的一份声明，该法案将禁止立法者在该措施签署成为法律后90天内买卖股票。
该措施还将要求当选官员、他们的配偶和受抚养子女从2027年开始减持股票和其他相关资产。
根据a .的说法，对未能出售这些股份的惩罚将是被制裁官员的月薪或有争议资产价值的10%,以金额较大者为准摘要的立法。
该措施还将未能披露股票持有情况的罚款从200美元提高到500美元，此前的一项法律要求此类信息必须公开。
该协议是由D-Ga参议员Jon Ossof达成的。参议员乔希·霍利。密歇根州参议员加里·彼得斯和俄勒冈州参议员杰夫·默克里。
彼得斯在周三的一份声明中说:“公众应该相信，联邦当选官员正在做出符合美国人民最佳利益的决定，而不是他们自己的个人财务。”
默克雷附和这一观点，敦促他的同事们支持这项措施。
“国会议员是被选举出来为公众服务的，而不是他们的股票投资组合，”Merkley在一份声明中说。"整个参议院应该尽快通过这项法案。"
民意调查显示，国会山普遍支持股票交易限制。
根据一家左倾公司进行的民意调查，超过四分之三的美国人支持国会议员禁止股票交易进步的数据2022年。右翼倡导团体国家行动公约在当年进行的一项民意调查中发现了同样的结果。
这项措施将在7月24日举行的国土安全和政府事务委员会会议上进行审议。
霍利在一份声明中说:“国会议员没有理由从只有他们得到而其他美国人得不到的信息中获利。”。"这项法案向前迈出了一大步。"
Senators reach bipartisan deal to ban stock trading by lawmakers
A bipartisan group of senators reached a deal on Wednesday to move forward with legislation that would ban stock trading by members ofCongress.
The bill would ban lawmakers from buying and selling stocks 90 days after the measure is signed into law, according to a statement shared with ABC News.
The measure would also require elected officials, their spouses and dependent children to unload stock holdings and other related assets beginning in 2027.
The punishment for a failure to divest such holdings would be the monthly salary of the sanctioned official or 10% of the value of the assets at issue, whichever amount is greater, according to asummaryof the legislation.
The measure also raises the penalty from $200 to $500 for failure to disclose stock holdings under a previous law that requires such information be made public.
The agreement was reached by Sen. Jon Ossof, D-Ga., Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.
"The public should be confident that federal elected officials are making decisions that are in the best interests of the American people, not their own personal finances," Peters said in a statement on Wednesday.
Echoing that sentiment, Merkley urged his colleagues to support the measure.
"Members of Congress are elected to serve the public -- not their stock portfolios," Merkley said in a statement. "The whole Senate should pass this bill and do so soon."
Polls show widespread support for stock trading limits on Capitol Hill.
More than three-quarters of Americans support a ban of stock trading by members of Congress, according to a poll conducted by left-leaning firmData for Progressin 2022. A rightwing advocacy groupConvention of States Actionfound the same result in a poll it conducted that year.
The measure will be taken up for consideration at a meeting of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on July 24.
"There is no reason why members of Congress ought to be profiting off of the information that only they get and the rest of the American people don't get," Hawley said in a statement. "This bill takes a giant step forward."
