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Ban on congressional stock trading tied to voter-ID provision, risking Senate passage
Summary
A House bill that would bar members from trading stocks was reported to have a photo voter-ID requirement attached; the correspondent and a House Republican guest warned that the additional voter-ID language could doom the bill in the Senate.
The segment reported that House Republicans have advanced legislation to ban members of Congress from trading stocks but that Senate interest is limited, in part because the House attached a voter-ID mandate. "Then we have a bill banning house members from trading stocks. However, the senate has little appetite for that. Glued to that bill is a mandate for voter ID," Chad Pergrim said.
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodi Arrington expressed support for both measures, calling a stock-trading ban a basic safeguard and urging photo voter ID to restore public confidence in elections. "We should also put the most basic safeguard in place, photo voter ID, to give confidence in election integrity," Arrington said. The segment did not include a Senate viewpoint or detailed legislative text about how the voter-ID provision was attached.
