Ricketts Carries Senate Version of GOP Bill on Stock Trading Limits, Sales Disclosures

Ricketts carries Senate version of GOP bill on stock trading limits, sales disclosures

OMAHA — The U.S. Senate appears poised to puff from the long-held public disclosure pipe dream of greater financial accountability for its members’ stock trading. U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., on Wednesday proposed the Senate companion to a House proposal…

Pete Ricketts introduces legislation banning congressional stock trades

EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) will be introducing legislation that would ban members of Congress and their families from buying stocks. The bill Ricketts will introduce on Wednesday is companion legislation to the bill Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) introduced in the House. Ricketts’s bill already has co-sponsors and comes after President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass the ban during his State of the Union address last month. MAJOR HOU…