Pelosi rejects stock-trading ban for members of Congress: 'We are a free-market economy.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday rejected the idea of barring members of Congress and their spouses from holding or trading individual stocks while in office.
"We are a free-market economy. They should be able to participate in that," Pelosi said when asked by Insider at her weekly press conference.
Insider also asked Pelosi about Conflicted Congress, a five-month-long investigation by Insider that found that 49 members of Congress and 182 senior congressional staffers had violated the STOCK Act, a law to prevent Insider trading.
