Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., said lawmakers should 'consider another job' if they refuse to give up trading individual stocks.
in February. Her comments came in response to a question about banning stock trading, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has come around to."So my thoughts on it, you know, I think this whole concept is bulls---. Because I think that, why would you assume that members of Congress are going to be inherently bad or corrupt? We already have the STOCK Act that requires people to report stock trades.
"For once, Abigail Spanberger is right," CLF press secretary Cally Perkins said in a statement. "Elaine Luria should consider another job."Pelosi was once opposed to a ban on stock trades for members of Congress but now said she's open to it — even as her family's stocks have come under scrutiny.
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