House Speaker Mike Johnson may want to put the Jeffrey Epstein saga behind him, but some Republicans saw rank-and-file members’ success in forcing Tuesday’s vote as an opportunity to push their own legislative priorities to the floor — even if it doesn’t have leadership’s blessing. GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has put House Republican leaders on notice that unless they change their approach to a bipartisan bill banning lawmaker stock trading, she will circumvent them using a discharge petition...

According to the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy, 86% of Americans want to ban stock trading in Congress. As elected...

The push to bar members of Congress from trading individual stocks is heading toward a moment of truth this fall, as a slew of bills...