The House could vote as soon as next week on a long-stalled proposal to restrict lawmaker stock-trading, according to four people granted anonymity to describe private leadership deliberations.
Republican leaders discussed scheduling the vote in a private meeting Wednesday morning and plan to move forward pending final conversations with members, the people said. The leaders intend to move it alongside a budget framework for the GOP’s new party-line spending bill, seeing the pre-summer-recess fly-out week as their best chance to finally move the legislation.
While some efforts to crack down on congressional trading have been bipartisan, the…
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