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Spanberger ‘grateful’ for Wheeler’s endorsement; Insider trading opposition doesn’t extend to local leaders

Rep. Abigail Spanberger visits Todos Supermarket in Woodbridge during a campaign stop on August 8, 2022. [Photo: Rick Horner]
Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D-Va. 7) says she's focused on preventing federal officials from participating in insider trading.

However, those same safeguards wouldn't apply to locally-elected officials.

Since 2020, Spanberger has sought to ban politicians from trading single stocks. Spanberger introduced the Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress Act. She has also gone so far as to recommend that family members of sitting members of Congress should not be allowed to buy or sell individual stocks due to the privileged information that may find its way into their hands.

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