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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rep. <keyword id="14323840" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="alan-lowenthal" source="Orion">Alan Lowenthal</keyword> has twice violated the <keyword id="12169748" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="stock-act" source="Orion">STOCK Act</keyword> with late stock-trade disclosures.</li><li>He's one of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stock-act-violations-senate-house-trading-2021-9">64 members of Congress</a> to violate the conflicts-of-interest law since last year.</li></ul>Democratic Rep. Alan Lowenthal of California has again violated a federal conflicts-of-interest law — this time by failing to properly disclose four stock and corporate bond trades for himself or his wife, according to an Insider review of financial filings with the US House.Lowenthal's wife, Deborah Malumed, sold an Equinox Inc. corporate bond in June 2021 and stock in General Motors in August 2021, according to a report the congressman filed June 24 with the US House. The congressman also reported that the couple in February 2021 received shares of International Flavors &amp; Fragrances in exchange for shares in DuPont, which had spun off the company.But the federal <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-act-congress-trading-stocks-investing-2022-3">Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012</a> requires members of <keyword id="11893699" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="congress" source="Orion">Congress</keyword> to report such trades no more than 45 days after making them, meaning Lowenthal was months late reporting these trades.Taken together, the trades are worth between $32,000 and $130,000. (Lawmakers are only required to report the value of their trades in broad ranges.)<div type="image" title="A congressional stock-trade disclosure filing from Rep. Alan Lowenthal, a Democrat of California." height="2394" width="1390" msid="92550985" hostid="261"></div>Lowenthal spokesperson Keith Higginbotham said the congressman is traveling abroad and his congressional office had no immediate comment.This is the second time in seven months that Lowenthal, who typically reports hundreds of stock transactions each year, according to federal records, has violated the STOCK Act's disclosure provisions.In November, Lowenthal was late disclosing his wife's purchase of a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/what-is-a-corporate-bond">corporate bond</a> in cloud computing and technology company <keyword id="14323841" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vmware" source="Orion">VMWare</keyword>, worth between $15,001 and $50,000, Forbes first <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2021/11/16/yet-more-lawmakers-apparently-violate-house-stock-trading-rules/?sh=7c06663a28b8">reported</a>. "We have no comment," Higginbotham told Insider at the time.<h2>Numerous violations across Congress</h2>Lowenthal is one of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stock-act-violations-senate-house-trading-2021-9">64 members of Congress</a> that Insider's "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/conflicted-congress-key-findings-stock-act-finances-investing-2021-12">Conflicted Congress</a>" project and other media outlets have identified since 2021 as violating the STOCK Act with late disclosures. At least <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-staff-violated-stock-act-conflicts-of-interest-possible-2021-12">182 senior congressional staffers</a> have violated the STOCK Act's disclosure provisions, as well.Insider's reporting also <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-members-are-trading-defense-stocks-while-shaping-military-policy-2021-12">found</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lawmakers-bought-sold-covid-19-related-stocks-during-pandemic-2021-12">numerous</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-democrats-with-fossil-fuel-stocks-investments-2021-12">examples</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lawmakers-investing-in-crypto-as-congress-weighs-regulations-2021-12">of</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-holding-stocks-facebook-twitter-disney-fox-news-2021-12">conflicts</a> of interest among federal lawmakers — both Democrats and Republicans.It has long been legal for members of Congress to buy, sell, and hold individual stocks, including stocks in companies that have significant business before Congress or stand to be affected by congressional decisions.But lawmakers on the left and right <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/financial-conflicts-congress-members-rated-2021-12?page=stories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have in recent months introduced several bills</a> to ban or otherwise limit their colleagues — and in some cases, spouses — from playing the stock market. Lawmakers are <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stocks-trading-stock-act-money-2022-6">actively debating the matter</a>, and some have promised to put a consensus bill up for a vote later this year.Supporters of the congressional stock status quo have argued that current laws are adequate and that members of Congress should have the same investment rights as members of the general public.Opponents argue that federal lawmakers should be held to the highest standards in avoiding financial conflicts of interest, be them real or perceived, and that the STOCK Act has proven to be inadequate."There's an old expression about insanity and doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result," said Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, government affairs manager for nonpartisan government watchdog group Project on Government Oversight. "Congress has clearly entered the realm of the insane when it comes to financial conflicts of interest and they need to do something very different in order to give the public the result we deserve and expect."

Democratic Rep. Alan Lowenthal is one of Congress' most active stock traders, and he just violated a federal conflicts-of-interest law. Again.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Speaker <keyword id="128640" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="nancy-pelosi" source="Orion">Nancy Pelosi</keyword> said that her venture capitalist husband has "absolutely not" traded using information she's given him.</li><li>Her husband, <keyword id="12175055" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="paul-pelosi" source="Orion">Paul Pelosi</keyword>, has invested millions in 19 different companies since 2021.</li></ul>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday denied that her husband made stock trades based on any information she's given him."Absolutely not," Pelosi, a Democrat from California, said at a press conference after a reporter asked whether her husband, Paul Pelosi, had ever invested in stocks using "information he had received from you."Pelosi's husband is a successful venture capitalist and serial investor. Since 2021, Insider found that he's made tens of millions of dollars in stock and stock option trades together involving <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-stock-trades-congress-investments-2022-7">19 companies</a>.The <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-stock-trades-paul-pelosi-nvidia-visa-apple-2022-7">speaker reported in July</a> that her husband recently exercised 200 call options, or 20,000 shares, of <keyword id="11897493" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="nvidia" source="Orion">NVIDIA</keyword> worth between $1 million and $5 million.NVIDIA is a producer of high-end graphics processing units, and the investment has <a href="https://www.benzinga.com/news/22/07/28145000/big-short-fame-investor-michael-burry-says-nancy-pelosis-semiconductor-stock-buy-shouldnt-be-legal">drawn criticism</a> for coming directly before the Senate is set to vote on a <a href="https://rollcall.com/2022/07/19/expanded-chips-plus-package-advances-in-senate/">$52 billion bill</a> to bolster computer chip manufacturing in the United States.The trades also come at a time when members of Congress are debating whether federal lawmakers and their spouses should even be allowed to trade individual stocks.When asked in December 2021 how she felt about a possible ban, she said "We are a free-market economy. They should be able to participate in that." After intense blowback from the public and her colleagues, Pelosi ultimately <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/if-members-want-nancy-pelosi-reverses-on-stock-trade-ban-2022-1">acquiesced on a possible ban</a>, saying, "If members want to do that, I'm okay with that."Despite support for a ban from both sides of the aisle, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ban-congress-stock-trading-stalls-merkley-spanberger-jayapal-ossoff-2022-5">its fate is unclear.</a>Members of Congress, meanwhile, continue to violate the existing Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012, which they passed to curb insider trading and defend against conflicts of interest.Since June alone, <keyword id="12169748" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="stock-act" source="Orion">STOCK Act</keyword> violators that Insider has identified include Sen. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stocks-bill-hagerty-tennessee-republican-disclosure-trades-2022-7">Bill Hagerty</a>, a Republican from Tennessee; Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-vicente-gonzalez-texas-stock-act-trades-2022-6">Vicente Gonzalez</a>, a Democrat from Texas; <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stock-trades-alan-lowenthal-california-2022-6">Alan Lowenthal</a>, a Democrat from California; <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-maria-elvira-salazar-stock-trade-congress-2022-6">Maria Elvira Salazar</a>, a Republican of Florida; <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-hickenlooper-raskin-stock-trades-congress-2022-6">Jamie Raskin</a>, a Democrat of Maryland; Sen. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-hickenlooper-raskin-stock-trades-congress-2022-6">John Hickenlooper</a>, a Democrat from Colorado; and Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/madison-cawthorn-crypto-cryptocurrency-lets-go-brandon-congress-2022-6">Madison Cawthorn</a>, a Republican from North Carolina.In all, Insider and other media organizations have since 2021 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stock-act-violations-senate-house-trading-2021-9">identified 66 members of Congress</a> who've violated the STOCK Act.In late 2021, Insider analyzed each member of Congress' net worth and found Pelosi as the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wealthiest-members-congress-house-senate-finances-2021-12#14-rep-nancy-pelosi-a-democrat-from-california-46123051-12">14th wealthiest member</a> of Congress with an estimated net worth of $46,123,051, almost all of which comes from her husband's bevy of investments.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi denies her husband makes stock trades based on information she provides

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12215589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="cynthia-lummis" source="Orion">Cynthia Lummis</keyword> and <keyword id="12026652" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="pat-toomey" source="Orion">Pat Toomey</keyword> are the only two US <keyword id="12300398" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="senators" source="Orion">senators</keyword> invested in <keyword id="11893898" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="crypto" source="Orion">crypto</keyword>, the Wall Street Journal found.</li><li>Lummis and Toomey are part of the Senate Banking Committee, which oversees banks and coinage.</li></ul>Cynthia Lummis and Pat Toomey are the only two US senators invested in cryptocurrencies, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. Lummis, a Republican from Wyoming, and Toomey, a Republican from Pennsylvania, also sit on the Senate Banking Committee, which <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/senate-banking-committee-letter-stablecoin-issuers-tether-circle-sherrod-brown-2021-11">oversees banks and coinage</a> and has <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/27/senate-banking-committee-presses-crypto-experts-on-systemic-risk-at-hearing.html">questioned crypto experts</a> on the industry. Lummis, known as a crypto evangelist, owns five <keyword id="11893902" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="bitcoin" source="Orion">bitcoin</keyword> worth about a quarter of a million dollars, while Toomey has a smaller share in the industry, the Journal reported, citing its own intensive review of financial documents. The senators did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. To the Journal, Toomey asked what part of the economy US lawmakers aren't involved in that could be a conflict of interest. Lummis, whose portfolio also includes her family cattle ranches, told the Journal that for people who say she should sell her bitcoin, she responds, "It's a commodity. Should I also sell my cows?"Lummis has become <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/crypto-supporter-senator-cynthia-lummis-block-powell-brainard-fed-nominations-2021-12">well-known for being a crypto advocate</a> in <keyword id="11893699" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="congress" source="Orion">Congress</keyword>. Her campaign accepted bitcoin contributions, and her home state of Wyoming has passed several crypto-friendly laws.According to the Journal's report, at least five White House staff and nine members of the US House of Representatives also are invested in cryptocurrencies. Those House members include Florida Republican Michael Waltz, Massachusetts Democrat Jake Auchincloss, Tennessee Republican Mark Green, California Democrat Alan Lowenthal, Texas Republican Michael McCaul, Alabama Republican Barry Moore, Illinois Democrat Marie Newman, Colorado Democrat Ed Perlmutter, and Jeff New Jersey Republican Jeff Van Drew. Lawmakers are legally allowed to invest in assets like stocks and cryptocurrencies, though they must publicly disclose trades, according to the rules of the 2012 Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act.But a recent Insider investigation found <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stock-act-violations-penalties-consequences-2021-12">dozens of members of Congress and top Capitol Hill staffers have been late in filing their stock trades</a>this year and last, though.Meanwhile, some savvy day traders have begun <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/retail-traders-are-mirroring-investments-by-nancy-pelosis-husband-whose-stock-picks-have-been-strong-performers-over-the-last-2-years/articleshow/86846426.cms">mirroring investing activity</a> of prominent lawmakers and their spouses, like Paul Pelosi, husband to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

Bitcoin boosters Cynthia Lummis and Pat Toomey are the only two senators invested in crypto: report

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Two Texas Republicans and a Pennsylvania Democrat have violated a federal conflicts-of-interest law.</li><li>The combined trades add up to $180,000 worth of stock in financial, healthcare, and energy firms.</li></ul>Two congressmen from Texas and one from Pennsylvania have joined more than four dozen of their Capitol Hill colleagues in violating a federal law designed to combat financial conflicts of interest, according to an Insider analysis of congressional financial-disclosure documents. The newest violators of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act's disclosure provisions include the Texas Republicans <keyword id="12932567" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="pat-fallon" source="Orion">Pat Fallon</keyword> and <keyword id="12932568" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="michael-burgess" source="Orion">Michael Burgess</keyword>, as well as the Pennsylvania Democrat <keyword id="12932569" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dwight-evans" source="Orion">Dwight Evans</keyword>.These violations come as a growing number of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle — from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kevin-mccarthy-considers-barring-lawmakers-trading-stocks-2022-1">House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy</a>, a California Republican, to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat — have responded to Insider's "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/conflicted-congress-key-findings-stock-act-finances-investing-2021-12">Conflicted Congress</a>" reporting project by recommending increased restrictions on how members of Congress may invest their own money."<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/financial-conflicts-congress-members-rated-2021-12">Conflicted Congress</a>" showed the myriad ways members of the US House and Senate had eviscerated their own financial-ethics standards, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stock-act-violations-penalties-consequences-2021-12">avoided consequences</a>, and blinded Americans to the many moments when lawmakers' personal finances clashed with their public duties.Fallon, who was late reporting up to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pat-fallon-congress-texas-stock-trades-boeing-2021-6">$18 million in stock trades</a> earlier this year, missed the deadline again in December. Federally required disclosure documents <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21176433-fallon-december-2021">showed</a> the first-term lawmaker was nearly two months late disclosing a purchase of up to $100,000 worth of stock in the investment firm <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/orcc-stock">Owl Rock Capital Corp</a>. — weeks past the 30-day deadline prescribed by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012. Fallon's office did not respond to requests for comment.Federally required disclosure documents <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21176431-burgess-december-2021">showed</a> that Burgess, a 10-term lawmaker who serves on the influential House Energy and Commerce Committee, sold 100 shares of stock in the health insurer <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/ci-stock">Cigna Corp</a>. on November 19, when it <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/ci-stock">closed</a> at $210.51 a share. The stock's price plummeted during the following several days before rebounding in December.Burgess certified that he became aware of the trade on November 23, and by federal law, he had until December 23 to publicly disclose the trade — but didn't do so until December 31.He is a <a href="https://energycommerce.house.gov/about-ec/membership">member</a> of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on health, which has <a href="https://energycommerce.house.gov/subcommittees/health-117th-congress">jurisdiction</a> over health insurance. His office did not respond to requests for comment about the financial transactions.Federally required disclosure documents <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21176432-evans-december-2021">showed</a> Evans sold up to $15,000 worth of stock in <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/aep-stock">American Electric Power Co. Inc.</a> on November 2. The four-term lawmaker didn't publicly disclose the trade until December 22, several days after a federally mandated deadline. Evans' office did not respond to requests for comment about the financial transactions.<h2><div type="image" title="Dianne Feinstein" height="3557" width="4742" msid="88840159" hostid="261"></div></h2><h2>A growing number of STOCK Act violations </h2>The STOCK Act is designed to offer transparency about where members of Congress and their families are earning money outside their congressional salaries and to show any conflicts of interest. Burgess and Evans are the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stock-act-violations-senate-house-trading-2021-9">53rd and 54th members of Congress, respectively</a>, that Insider and other <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">news</keyword> organizations have identified as failing to properly disclose their stock transactions throughout 2021 as mandated by the STOCK Act.They include:<ul><li>Sen. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dianne-feinstein-senate-california-stock-purchase-disclosure-2021-1">Dianne Feinstein</a>, a Democrat of California</li><li>Sen. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-congress-stock-law-tommy-tuberville-pat-fallon-blake-moore-2021-7">Tommy Tuberville</a>, a Republican of Alabama</li><li>Sen. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/11/rand-paul-gilead-stock/">Rand Paul</a>, a Republican of Kentucky</li><li>Sen. <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/mark-kelly-transparency-law-violation">Mark Kelly</a>, a Democrat of Arizona</li><li>Sen. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/republican-sen-roger-marshall-kansas-stock-act-violation-2021-10">Roger Marshall</a>, a Republican of Kansas</li><li>Sen. <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/07/senator-cynthia-lummis-discloses-a-bitcoin-purchase-worth-up-to-100000.html">Cynthia Lummis</a>, a Republican of Wyoming</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tom-malinowski-stock-trades-congress-transparency-new-jersey-2021-3">Tom Malinowski</a>, a Democrat of New Jersey</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pat-fallon-congress-texas-stock-trades-boeing-2021-6">Pat Fallon</a>, a Republican of Texas</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rep-katherine-clark-a-top-pelosi-ally-violated-the-stock-act-2021-8">Katherine Clark</a>, a Democrat of Massachusetts</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/diana-harshbarger-congress-stocks-violation-stock-act-trades-tennessee-2021-8">Diana Harshbarger</a>, a Republican of Tennessee</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-rep-dan-crenshaw-decided-the-covid-19-pandemic-was-the-perfect-time-to-buy-and-not-disclose-stocks">Dan Crenshaw</a>, a Republican of Texas</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sean-patrick-maloney-dccc-congress-stock-sale-ethics-complaint-2021-4">Sean Patrick Maloney</a>, a Democrat of New York</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/brian-mast-florida-bought-virgin-galactic-stock-congress-after-testimony-2021-8">Brian Mast</a>, a Republican of Florida</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rep-blake-moore-violated-federal-law-with-late-stock-disclosures-2021-7">Blake Moore</a>, a Republican of Utah</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stocks-lori-trahan-debbie-wasserman-kathy-castor-tuberville-malinowski-2021-7">Debbie Wasserman Schultz</a>, a Democrat of Florida</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stocks-lori-trahan-debbie-wasserman-kathy-castor-tuberville-malinowski-2021-7">Kathy Castor</a>, a Democrat of Florida</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stocks-lori-trahan-debbie-wasserman-kathy-castor-tuberville-malinowski-2021-7">Lori Trahan</a>, a Democrat of Massachusetts</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-act-violation-congress-bustos-pfluger-chabot-frankel-ethics-2021-8">Steve Chabot</a>, a Republican of Ohio</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-act-violation-congress-bustos-pfluger-chabot-frankel-ethics-2021-8">Cheri Bustos</a>, a Democrat of Illinois</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-act-violation-congress-bustos-pfluger-chabot-frankel-ethics-2021-8">August Pfluger</a>, a Republican of Texas</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ed-perlmutter-colorado-congress-stock-trades-alibaba-berkshire-hathaway-2021-8">Ed Perlmutter</a>, a Democrat of Colorado</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2021/09/10/two-more-lawmakers-apparently-violated-stock-trade-rules/?sh=4702e9283ab5&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=checksimbalances-freemium&amp;cdlcid=60be15defe2c195e911e745f">Chris Jacobs</a>, a Republican of New York</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2021/09/10/two-more-lawmakers-apparently-violated-stock-trade-rules/?sh=4702e9283ab5&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=checksimbalances-freemium&amp;cdlcid=60be15defe2c195e911e745f">Bobby Scott</a>, a Democrat of Virginia</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/susie-lee-nevada-congress-stock-act-trades-disclosure-2021-9">Susie Lee</a>, a Democrat of Nevada</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-rep-kevin-hern-oklahoma-violated-stock-act-2021-9">Kevin Hern</a>, a Republican of Oklahoma</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039287987/outside-ethics-group-says-7-house-lawmakers-didnt-disclose-stock-trades">Thomas Suozzi</a>, a Democrat of New York</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039287987/outside-ethics-group-says-7-house-lawmakers-didnt-disclose-stock-trades">Cindy Axne</a>, a Democrat of Iowa</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039287987/outside-ethics-group-says-7-house-lawmakers-didnt-disclose-stock-trades">Warren Davidson</a>, a Republican of Ohio</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039287987/outside-ethics-group-says-7-house-lawmakers-didnt-disclose-stock-trades">Lance Gooden</a>, a Republican of Texas</li><li>Del. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039287987/outside-ethics-group-says-7-house-lawmakers-didnt-disclose-stock-trades">Michael San Nicolas</a>, a Democrat of Guam</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039287987/outside-ethics-group-says-7-house-lawmakers-didnt-disclose-stock-trades">Roger Williams</a>, a Republican of Texas</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.legistorm.com/pro_news/2816/rep-meuser-didnt-report-lucrative-stock-buys-on-time.html">Dan Meuser</a>, a Republican from Pennsylvania</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-act-congress-investments-conflict-of-interest-transparency-spartz-2021-9">John Rutherford</a>, a Republican of Florida</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-act-congress-investments-conflict-of-interest-transparency-spartz-2021-9">Rick Allen</a>, a Republican of Georgia</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-act-congress-investments-conflict-of-interest-transparency-spartz-2021-9">Victoria Spartz</a>, a Republican of Indiana</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-act-congress-investments-conflict-of-interest-transparency-spartz-2021-9">Mike Kelly</a>, a Republican of Pennsylvania</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/democratic-brian-higgins-new-york-violate-stock-act-law-2021-9">Brian Higgins</a>, a Democrat of New York</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mo-brooks-vaccine-mandate-pfizer-stock-sale-congress-senate-alabama-2021-10">Mo Brooks</a>, a Republican of Alabama </li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mo-brooks-vaccine-mandate-pfizer-stock-sale-congress-senate-alabama-2021-10">Jim Banks</a>, a Republican of Indiana</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2021/11/16/yet-more-lawmakers-apparently-violate-house-stock-trading-rules/?sh=7c06663a28b8">Alan Lowenthal</a>, a Democrat from California </li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/michael-guest-congress-mississippi-stock-trades-investments-2021-11">Michael Guest</a>, a Republican of Mississippi</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mo-brooks-vaccine-mandate-pfizer-stock-sale-congress-senate-alabama-2021-10">Pete Sessions</a>, a Republican of Texas</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mo-brooks-vaccine-mandate-pfizer-stock-sale-congress-senate-alabama-2021-10">Rob Wittman</a>, a Republican of Virginia</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mo-brooks-vaccine-mandate-pfizer-stock-sale-congress-senate-alabama-2021-10">Austin Scott</a>, a Republican of Georgia</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mo-brooks-vaccine-mandate-pfizer-stock-sale-congress-senate-alabama-2021-10">Chuck Fleischmann</a>, a Republican of Tennessee</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-kim-schrier-apple-stock-washington-state-2021-11">Kim Schrier</a>, a Democrat of Washington </li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mikie-sherrill-stock-act-congress-ubs-trades-2021-12">Mikie Sherrill</a>, a Democrat of New Jersey</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jim-hagedorn-minnesota-congress-stock-act-trades-disclosure-2021-12">Jim Hagedorn</a>, a Republican of Minnesota</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/exxon-mobil-congress-peter-welch-stock-act-investing-2021-11">Peter Welch</a>, a Democrat of Vermont</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://americanindependent.com/house-republican-congressman-mike-garcia-failed-to-properly-disclose-finances-stock-trades-ethics-2020/amp/">Mike Garcia</a>, a Republican of California</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-act-congress-democrats-violation-law-2021-12">Bill Pascrell</a>, a Democrat of New Jersey</li><li>Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-act-congress-democrats-violation-law-2021-12">David Trone</a>, a Democrat of Maryland</li></ul>Some federal lawmakers <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-members-of-congress-who-dont-buy-and-sell-stocks-2021-12">voluntarily abstain</a> from trading stocks. Others trade only in bonds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and other garden-variety investments.Members of Congress who want to formally disassociate themselves from their personal investments can ask their chamber's ethics committee to approve the creation of a qualified blind trust, though Insider found <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-members-of-congress-who-dont-buy-and-sell-stocks-2021-12">only a handful</a> had done so. Sen. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/peloton-federal-john-hickenlooper-virginia-foxx-tobacco-jon-ossoff-2021-6">Jon Ossoff</a>, a Democrat from Georgia, is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jon-ossoff-stock-trade-ban-members-of-congress-pelosi-2022-1">poised to introduce new legislation</a> barring his <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pretty-dangerous-democracy-members-congress-want-ban-stock-trading-2022-1">colleagues and their spouses</a> from holding or trading individual stocks while they're in elective office — a stance that puts him in league on this issue with McCarthy and at odds with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat. Pelosi pushed back against barring sitting lawmakers from trading stocks last month when asked about the "<keyword id="12727727" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="conflicted-congress" source="Orion">Conflicted Congress</keyword>" findings, though many in her party — and a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/76-percent-disagree-with-pelosi-congress-unfair-advantage-stock-trading-2022-1">burgeoning chunk of voters</a> — disapprove of elected officials getting rich off insider information.Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus and a prospective Pelosi successor, would not commit to supporting legislation banning stock trading when asked about it on January 11 by Insider."I support continuing to make sure that everyone complies with the law as it is right now," <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hakeem-jeffries-slams-kevin-mccarthy-wont-commit-stock-trading-ban-2022-1">Jeffries said</a>. "I'm unfamiliar with the legislation. It hasn't been presented to me. Nobody has talked to me about it. And, of course, I'm open to having any conversations with any members."Legislation titled the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/s564/BILLS-117s564is.pdf">Ban Conflicted Trading Act</a>, sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat of Oregon, and in the House by Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat of Illinois, would separately bar members of Congress from trading individual stocks.In a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/76-percent-disagree-with-pelosi-congress-unfair-advantage-stock-trading-2022-1">December survey</a> of voters conducted by the conservative group Convention of States Action, 76% of respondents gave a thumbs-down to lawmakers and their spouses trading stocks — with the opinion that those individuals had garnered an "unfair advantage" in the stock market — while only 5% of respondents said they were fine with the practice.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Sarah Katz is a freelance writer who covers the intersection between disability and mental health, relationships, entertainment, and public services.</li><li>The National Association of the <keyword id="6370277" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="deaf">Deaf</keyword> filed a lawsuit on Monday against President Donald Trump and the White House for failing to provide <keyword id="402326" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="American-Sign-Language">American Sign Language</keyword> interpreters during coronavirus press briefings to make them accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing people. </li><li>The Congressional Deaf Caucus, chaired by Reps. Takano and John Rutherford, sent a letter to Mike Pence urging that the White House have sign language interpreters at its public health press briefings.</li><li>The caucus includes 28 members of Congress, including two Republicans and 26 Democrats.</li><li>While governors and local officials in all 50 states have had sign language interpreters at their briefings, the White House has not.</li></ul>The National Association of the Deaf, the largest civil rights organization for the deaf and hard-of-hearing in the US, filed a lawsuit on Monday against President Donald Trump and the White House for failing to provide American Sign Language interpreters during coronavirus press briefings. The NAD is joined by Arnold &amp; Porter, an international law firm, and five deaf individuals, including Carlton Strail, Graham Forsey, Debra Fleetwood, John Rivera, Jr., and Corey Axelrod.The plaintiffs allege that the White House is in violation of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which mandates <a href="https://www.nad.org/about-us/position-statements/position-statement-on-accessible-emergency-management-for-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-people/">the provision of access to emergency services to deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals during a crisis</a>.The suit comes after repeated requests from the NAD, the National Council on Disability, and the Congressional Deaf Caucus for sign language interpreters at all televised White House public health press briefings.The White House did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment.The chairs of the caucus, Reps. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) and John Rutherford (R-Fla.), sent a <a href="https://takano.house.gov/download/asl-interpreters-covid19-white-house-briefings">letter</a> to Vice President Mike Pence in May urging him to have sign language interpreters at all White House press briefings on COVID-19 so that deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals have equal access to information related to the coronavirus. It was also signed by six additional members of the caucus, including Reps. French Hill (R-Ark.), John Larson (D-Conn.), Dave Loebsack (D-Iowa), Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), and Joseph Morelle (D-N.Y.)."The use of sign language interpreters is crucial to ensuring that this unique population is provided with the same information as the rest of the country to help slow the spread, flatten the curve, and ultimately prevent loss of life," <a href="https://takano.house.gov/download/asl-interpreters-covid19-white-house-briefings">the letter reads</a>.Governors in all 50 states are now providing sign language interpreters during their briefings since the NAD shared its<a href="https://www.nad.org/2020/04/06/access-during-coronavirus-public-briefings/"> press release responding to member concerns about access to briefings</a> in April. But the White House has never provided sign language interpreters during its own press conferences about the virus.The caucus's letter joins multiple other letters sent to the White House, including letters sent by<a href="https://www.nad.org/senator-sherrod-browns-letter-to-the-white-house-regarding-asl-interpreters/"> Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pa.), and Rep. Donna Shalala (D-Fla.)</a>, the<a href="https://www.nad.org/letter-to-white-house-about-coronavirus-conferences/"> NAD</a>, and the<a href="https://ncd.gov/publications/2020/ncd-letter-white-house-regarding-taskforce-interpreters#_ftn1"> National Council on Disability</a>.Deaf celebrities, including Marlee Matlin, have also urged the White House to include qualified sign language interpreters at its briefings."Dear @WhiteHouse <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> &amp; press conferences around the country during this Corona Virus Emergency have sign language interpreters standing next to the speakers, providing ACCESS for millions of deaf Americans," Matlin, the Academy Award-winning actress, <a href="https://twitter.com/MarleeMatlin/status/1240675491029213191">tweeted</a>. "Can you do the same, PLEASE?"Rep. Takano and former Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kans.) founded the caucus in 2013 to "help bridge the communication divide between Members of Congress and their Deaf and Hard of Hearing constituents, as well as empower these individuals by promoting equal access for all," Rep. Takano said in an exclusive email interview with Business Insider. It has 28 members of Congress, including two Republicans and 26 Democrats."[E]veryone deserves to have equal access to the government and I am glad to see that this effort is only getting stronger," Rep. Takano said. "As the representative for the California School for the Deaf in Riverside, California, I want to make sure that all of my constituents' needs are taken into consideration and are advocated for in Congress."He added, "During this pandemic, we are witnessing how important it is for all communications and public briefings to be accessible to everyone. We cannot allow any gaps in relaying information to the American people, and that's why we are urging the Trump Administration to have ASL interpreters at every public briefing on COVID-19 … The Deaf and Hard of Hearing community should not be waiting any longer to be up to speed on the latest developments surrounding this pandemic."The NAD's chief executive officer, Howard Rosenblum, told Business Insider that, while White House briefings are live-captioned, and captioning provides crucial access to information about the coronavirus for many deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans, American Sign Language is a primary language for some of them, whose grammar is distinct from English."For this population, it is not enough to share emergency communications in English," he said. "The same information must be shared in ASL. Unfortunately, for many emergencies in the past, press conferences have failed to use qualified professional interpreters to render the shared information in ASL."He added that the exclusion of sign language interpreters from White House press briefings is barring deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans from receiving vital information, putting them at higher risk of contracting the virus as well as making them a risk to others."We have received many complaints from deaf and hard-of-hearing people unable to understand from the briefings what they are supposed to do or avoid to stay healthy and we have given them <a href="https://www.nad.org/covid19-communication-medical-access-for-deaf-hard-of-hearing/">tools</a> to advocate for their communication access," he said.At least 48 million individuals in the US are deaf and hard-of-hearing, and they use different communication modalities in addition to sign language, including Cued American English (via<a href="http://www.cuedspeech.org/cued-speech/about-cued-speech"> Cued Speech</a>) as well as spoken and written English. The NAD encourages all government agencies and media entities to review its<a href="https://www.nad.org/about-us/position-statements/position-statement-on-accessible-emergency-management-for-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-people/"> position statement</a> on how to make emergency communications accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, and to implement its recommendations.It's important to note that while many briefings at the state and local level have included sign language interpreters, they aren't without <keyword id="1476395" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="accessibility">accessibility</keyword> barriers for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers. In May, Democratic <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/5rov49vbgdwpeay/Martinez%20et%20al%20v.%20Cuomo%20-%20Complaint%20ECF%20Stamped.pdf?dl=0">New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was sued for not having sign language interpreters at his live press briefings</a>. According to Rosenblum, Gov. Cuomo had interpreters during his web broadcast, but not during his televised broadcast."Doing so leaves out deaf and hard-of-hearing people who may not have internet access but have TVs and were unable to have access to his broadcast," Rosenblum said.Members of the deaf and hard-of-hearing community can communicate issues to the Congressional Deaf Caucus by reaching out to members of Congress, including the chairs, on their official websites.

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