{"id":17925,"date":"2026-01-19T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/member-stock-trading-is-the-latest-target-for-a-democratic-discharge-petition-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T08:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:22:17","slug":"member-stock-trading-is-the-latest-target-for-a-democratic-discharge-petition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/member-stock-trading-is-the-latest-target-for-a-democratic-discharge-petition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Member stock-trading is the latest target for a Democratic discharge petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior House Democrat, in a long-shot move to force a member stock-trading ban to the floor, said Tuesday he will launch a discharge petition after Republican leaders moved to sidestep bipartisan efforts to address the issue. A GOP-written bill is expected to move through the House Administration Committee on Wednesday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/13\/congress\/stock-trading-discharge-petition-00724344\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior House Democrat, in a long-shot move to force a member stock-trading ban to the floor, said Tuesday he will launch a discharge petition after Republican leaders moved to sidestep bipartisan efforts to address the issue. A GOP-written bill is expected to move through the House Administration Committee on Wednesday&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}