McCarthy Eyes Ban on Lawmakers Trading Individual Stocks

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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is considering banning lawmakers from trading individual stocks if his party wins control of the chamber in the November midterms and he becomes speaker, a person familiar with the matter said.

The plan could be put into effect in the package of House rules voted on at the beginning of the next Congress.