{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-peters-bipartisan-legislation-banning-congressional-stock-trading-passes-through-committee/", "Hawley & Peters\u2019 Bipartisan Legislation Banning Congressional Stock Trading Passes Through Committee", "2024-07-24", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "Today legislation negotiated by U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Chairman Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) passed out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) to ban stock ownership and trading for sitting members of Congress.\n\nEarlier this month Senators Hawley, Ossoff, Merkley, and Chairman Peters negotiated the landmark bipartisan agreement. This is the first time a bill banning stock ownership has passed out of committee.\n\n\u201cMembers of Congress should not be here to turn a profit on the people\u2019s time. They should certainly not be trading or owning individual stocks, especially not in companies they oversee through their government work. This bill takes a giant step forward to that end, and I\u2019m proud that it has passed through Senator Peters\u2019 committee,\u201d said Senator Hawley.\n\nThe new bipartisan agreement would:\n\nImmediately ban members of Congress, the President, and Vice President from buying and selling covered assets. Covered assets include securities, commodities, futures, options, trusts, and other comparable holdings.\n\nRequire elected officials, their spouses, and dependent children to divest covered assets beginning in 2027. There is no blind trust loophole.\n\nIncrease penalties for violations of STOCK Act disclosure requirements from $200 to $500.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:32:29Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-peters-bipartisan-legislation-banning-congressional-stock-trading-passes-through-committee/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9592338465154171, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}