{"id":53023,"date":"2025-12-09T08:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/?post_type=act&#038;p=52889"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:01:10","slug":"ban-congressional-stock-trading-2","status":"publish","type":"act","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/actions\/ban-congressional-stock-trading-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BAN Congressional Stock Trading"},"template":"","class_list":["post-53023","act","type-act","status-publish","hentry","act_type-letter-campaign"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":"","act_type":44,"location":46,"related_issues":false,"related_work":false,"button_text":"","secondary_link":null,"hero_cta_type":"","hero_cta":null,"hero_cta_text":"","start_date_time":null,"end_date_time":null},"page_layout":null,"platform":"action_network","platform_id":"action_network:23f80aa5-5454-43b2-896a-5446a1725ee6","tm_actions_platform":{"event_type":"advocacy_campaigns","platform_url":"","summary":"","description":"<p>A growing bipartisan coalition in Congress is supporting the <em>Restore Trust in Congress Act<\/em>, a commonsense bill that would <em>ban<\/em> members of Congress from trading individual stocks while in office, and create serious penalties for doing so.<\/p><p>Public pressure is the only reason this reform is moving \u2013 but the window to act is small. 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