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For 12 years, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) has pushed for a ban on congressional stock trading, calling the practice “corrupt,” “unacceptable” and “wrong.”

The first time he and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) presented an amendment in 2012 that would prohibit members of Congress from playing the stock market, they only got 26 votes in support.

Now, Merkley is confident an amended version of the Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act has enough bipartisan support that it will come out of a markup meeting with the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Wednesday with the votes necessary to present the amendment for a vote....

Four Republican members of Congress have blown past a federal deadline for disclosing personal stock trades, with some more than a year late, a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial documents reveals.

Reps. John Curtis (R-UT), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Rob Wittman (R-VA) are among the lawmakers who violated the decade-old Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act with tardy financial disclosures.

Together, the four members of Congress’ improperly disclosed trades are worth as much as $555,000 collectively, Raw Story’s analysis indicates....