Senators reached a deal on bipartisan, compromise legislation that would bar federal elected officials and their families from trading stocks, increasing the odds that the populist effort to curb conflicts of interest advances through Congress in the coming weeks.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on July 24 will vote on whether to advance legislation that would prevent members of Congress, the president, and the vice president from holding or trading individual securities, panel Chairman Gary Peters (D-Mich.) said Wednesday.
The agreement represents the most substantive progress on the issue since lawmakers came under investigative and public scrutiny ...