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House members pushing for the ban were finally briefed about leadership's plans on Thursday. "We must remain vigilant," one of them warned.

The proposal comes after Insider and other news outlets found that at least 63 members of Congress failed to properly disclose their stock trades.

Lawmakers are asking for a markup on a bill that would include stiffer fines, forcing members to divest or use a blind trust, and that would include spouses.

Rodney Davis, the ranking member on the House Committee on Administration, said he isn't ready to "pigeonhole" himself into supporting a congressional stock trading ban.

The Committee on House Administration has postponed its hearing on proposals to ban congressional stock trading after its chair, Rep.

Insider found that dozens of lawmakers and at least 182 senior congressional staffers had failed to comply with the federal STOCK Act's disclosure requirements.

AP Photo/Andrew Harnik The attorney for the family of Ashli Babbitt, Terry Roberts, announced that the family plans to sue the Capitol Police and the officer who shot her for at least $10 million, Newsweek reports. Babbitt, a decorated Air Force veteran, was shot by a Capitol Police officer at the United States Capitol on January 6. Months later, the identity of the officer still hasn’t been released. The Capitol Police have not responded to FOIA requests – and they don’t have to, becaus...

GOP Rep. Davis Calls on Pelosi to Vaccinate, Reopen Congress Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is showing a “dereliction in duty” by failing to make public a plan for congressional aides and Capitol complex employees to get the CCP virusvaccination, according to Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.). “There has got to be a plan in place, and she failed miserably in the planning for the House testing earlier this year, so she needs to show a little more foresight in the vaccination process...