A bipartisan bill to ban lawmakers from trading stocks is unveiled in the House

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(Angela Weiss | AFP via Getty Images)A bipartisan group of House members has unveiled new legislation that would ban lawmakers from trading individual stocks. Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy and Rhode Island Democrat Seth Magaziner led the process of crafting the bipartisan effort to end lawmakers trading stocks. “It is long past time that we ban members of Congress from trading stocks,” Magaziner said Wednesday at a press conference on Capitol Hill. Bipartisan push to ban lawmakers from trading stocks gets a boost from Trump Proposals to bar members of Congress from trading stocks have stalled for years. Hawley is pushing for a bipartisan bill in the Senate that would ban lawmakers from trading or holding individual stocks.