Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has pledged to introduce a discharge petition for a bill to ban members of Congress from trading stocks , an effort to force a vote on the House floor for the longtime issue.

Dozens of bills have been introduced to ban congressional stock trading, which remains popular among the public, but none have reached the House floor for a full vote. Luna plans on changing that.

“The idea that a discharge petition is 'only a tool of the minority' is just an excuse to keep power consolidated in the hands of people who don’t actually want your member of Congress to legislate or fight for you,” Luna wrote in a post on X .

The House is out of session for a six-week district work period and is set to return to Washington in the first week of September, when Luna

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