Staff ReportsRepresentative Anna Paulina Luna just did what the establishment fears most: she filed a discharge petition to force a floor vote on a bill that would bar members of Congress from trading individual stocks. Luna’s petition was formally filed on December 2, 2025, and the clerk’s office now carries the motion to bring H.R. 1908 directly to the House floor instead of letting it die in backroom committees.
This is not theater — Luna’s move targets a real piece of legislation called the End Congressional Stock Trading Act and a resolution to consider it, H.Res. 725 and H.R. 1908, which would force lawmakers and their families to divest individual stock holdings and limit investments to broad-based funds. If Luna gathers the 218 signatures required for a discharge petition, leadership can no longer hide behind committee delays; every member will have to go on the record.
Americans from both parties are sick of the hypocrisy, and the push to ban congressional stock trading now has unlikely bipartisan momentum pushing it into the spotlight. Reporters from major outlets say this is a broad, growing movement in Congress borne of public outrage over members who sit in classified briefings and then turn around and trade the same industries they regulate. The idea that this can continue unchecked is an insult to every hard-working family in this country.
The receipts are ugly and they keep piling up. One clear example: Rep. Susie Lee bought shares of Rheinmetall in May 2024 while serving on a military-related subcommittee, and that holding rocketed to multiples of its original value — the kind of return normal Americans can only dream about. This is the exact kind of overlap between committee access and private profit that Luna’s discharge petition is designed to stop.
Look at the Viasat case to see how this plays out in plain sight: Viasat won a massive NASA-related contract early in 2025 worth up to $4.8 billion, and company shares surged on the news. At the same time frame, members of Congress, including officeholders tied to appropriations and defense work, have been trading the very tickers that benefit from federal awards — a practice that smells like insider advantage even if the elites won’t call it that. The American people deserve better than representatives treating their offices like trading desks.
Do not buy the establishment’s doubletalk when they say the 2012 STOCK Act fixed everything. That law put bandages on a broken system but left enforcement toothless and loopholes wide open, and members kept trading anyway. Luna’s discharge petition is the kind of muscle citizens expect from a representative who actually understands the anger of Main Street — force transparency, force accountability, and stop the soft-soap reform that lets insiders keep getting richer.
This is the moment conservatives have been waiting for: a fight to reclaim the integrity of our institutions from the corrupting influence of inside information and career politicians who profit off policy. Anna Paulina Luna is doing what leadership won’t: putting the choice where it belongs, on the House floor and in front of the voters. If members want to keep trading options and individual equities, make them say it out loud so the people can act at the ballot box.
Hardworking Americans are watching, and they should be furious. Signatures, phone calls, and pressure from constituents will decide whether this purge of privilege becomes law or becomes another headline swallowed by the swamp. Luna’s discharge petition is a battering ram against the old guard — it’s time patriots answer the call and demand our representatives stop treating public service like a private windfall.
