President Barack Obama signed the STOCK Act into law a decade ago. It was intended to increase transparency and curb personal financial conflicts of interest. But news investigations, including by ...

Rep. Brandon Gill faces questions after late disclosures of $500,000 in Bitcoin purchases, adding to the growing debate over ...

Senators selling stocks before the coronavirus pandemic rocked the markets have renewed attention on something called the STOCK Act. Here's what you need to know.

While lawmakers who violate the STOCK Act face a fine, the penalty is usually small — $200 is the standard amount — or waived by House or Senate ethics officials. Ethics watchdogs and even ...

In December 2023, market research platform Quiver Quantitative announced that four lawmakers had violated the STOCK Act. The politicians in question are Rep. John Rutherford (R-FL), Rep.

A group of Senate Democrats is re-introducing a bill to ban stock trading by members of Congress and their families, as ...

More than 70 members of Congress have reportedly violated the STOCK Act, which was enacted to prevent lawmakers from using nonpublic information to get an unfair advantage on the stock market.

But as the Campaign Legal Center reports, while the STOCK Act has provided unprecedented transparency about the financial interests of members of Congress, it has glaring shortcomings. To wit ...