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While long overdue, we applaud this bipartisan effort.

Our representatives should be focused on us, the American people, not their stock portfolios.

It's time to get this congressional stock trading ban across the finish line.
A bipartisan bill to ban lawmakers from trading stocks is unveiled in the House
Efforts to ban congressional stock trading have stalled for years. But a group of bipartisan lawmakers has a new consensus plan and wants a vote to show lawmakers aren't profiting from their roles.
www.npr.org
September 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Happy 4th of July, Batman.
July 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Birthright citizenship is “as close to a national self-definition as we have; it is our legal DNA,” David W. Blight writes. “One cannot overstate the gravity of Trump’s proposed action, nor the historical ignorance on which it stands.”
Birthright Citizenship Is a Sacred Guarantee
The attack on it is a violation of the nation’s post–Civil War rebirth.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM