Schumer tanks popular insider trading ban in Dem effort to derail Republican's agenda ahead of midterms
Schumer argued that Republicans attached voter ID provisions to a stock-trading ban to make the bill fail.
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TAP FOR WHYSenate Democrats blocked a Republican effort to combine a congressional stock-trading ban with nationwide voter ID requirements. Chuck Schumer said Republicans added voter ID as a “poison pill,” while Bryan Steil argued that the bill offered a commonsense ethics reform.
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4 OUTLETSThe Senate failed to advance a bill combining limits on lawmakers’ stock trades with federal voter ID requirements. Schumer objected to the voter ID provision and said the stock-trading restrictions were inadequate. Center outlets focus on the failed vote and disagreements over whether the stock-trading limits were sufficient and whether voter ID belonged in the bill. Right-leaning outlets frame the Democrats’ move as blocking a Republican agenda, while highlighting Schumer’s claim that voter ID was added to make the bill fail.
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