{"id":25543,"date":"2026-10-01T09:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=25543"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:52:54","slug":"merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley critica duramente a los republicanos del Senado por bloquear su proyecto de ley para prohibir las transacciones de acciones por parte de los congresistas."},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C. \u2013 Oregon\u2019s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after Senate Republicans blocked his Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cMembers of Congress are elected to serve the people, not their portfolios.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cRather than crack down on Congressional stock trading, Senate Republicans not only blocked my comprehensive legislation to ban this deeply corrupt practice, but they also put up a partisan, fatally flawed bill that doesn\u2019t cover the President and would only prevent members of Congress from buying stocks, allowing them to still sell and hold stocks and perpetuating a clear conflict of interest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cThere should be no question about whether a lawmaker is voting on or writing legislation in the best interest of their constituents or the best interest of their investments. We need a real ban on Congressional stock trading, and I urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to work with us on meaningful and decisive action to ban this flagrant conflict of interest once and for all.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday,\u00a0Merkley took to the Senate Floor in an attempt to pass his\u00a0Ley de \u00c9TICA<\/em>, which would ban members of Congress, the President, the Vice President, and their spouses and dependent children from buying, selling, and holding stocks and other covered investments. Full text of the\u00a0Ley de \u00c9TICA<\/em>\u00a0Se puede encontrar haciendo clic\u00a0aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merkley has been leading the charge to end Congressional stock trading for over a decade. In 2012, Merkley and former Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) led an effort to add an amendment to the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act<\/em><\/a> banning trading by members of Congress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2023, Merkley first introduced the Ley de \u00c9TICA<\/em>,<\/a> which later became the first-ever bill banning Congressional stock trading<\/a> to advance out of a Senate committee. The Ley de \u00c9TICA<\/em> was the basis for similar bipartisan legislation<\/a> that also advanced out of committee in the Republican-controlled Senate this Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C. \u2013 Oregon\u2019s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after Senate Republicans blocked his Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act: \u201cMembers of Congress are elected to serve the people, not their portfolios. \u201cRather than crack down on Congressional stock trading, Senate Republicans not only blocked my comprehensive legislation to ban this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":24865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-25543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-democracy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMerkley Blasts Senate Republicans for Blocking His Bill to Ban Congressional Stock Trading - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkley Blasts Senate Republicans for Blocking His Bill to Ban Congressional Stock Trading - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington, D.C. \u2013 Oregon\u2019s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after Senate Republicans blocked his Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act: \u201cMembers of Congress are elected to serve the people, not their portfolios. \u201cRather than crack down on Congressional stock trading, Senate Republicans not only blocked my comprehensive legislation to ban this […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-10-01T13:52:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-10-01T13:52:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_2.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Justin Krakoff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Justin Krakoff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Justin Krakoff\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/c3d47246c54d8abdcee52f34d61da4fb\"},\"headline\":\"Merkley Blasts Senate Republicans for Blocking His Bill to Ban Congressional Stock Trading\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-10-01T13:52:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-10-01T13:52:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/\"},\"wordCount\":354,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_2.png\",\"keywords\":[\"democracy\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Press Releases\"],\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/\",\"name\":\"Merkley Blasts Senate Republicans for Blocking His Bill to Ban Congressional Stock Trading - Merkley\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_2.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-10-01T13:52:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-10-01T13:52:54+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/c3d47246c54d8abdcee52f34d61da4fb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_2.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_2.png\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":630,\"caption\":\"Senator Merkley speaking at a podium.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Merkley Blasts Senate Republicans for Blocking His Bill to Ban Congressional Stock Trading\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/\",\"name\":\"Merkley\",\"description\":\"Merkley\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/c3d47246c54d8abdcee52f34d61da4fb\",\"name\":\"Justin Krakoff\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1ba3576c3bf3cb581e2e6031e8ab005ce4a057dc3aec2b380f46fe363a244496?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1ba3576c3bf3cb581e2e6031e8ab005ce4a057dc3aec2b380f46fe363a244496?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1ba3576c3bf3cb581e2e6031e8ab005ce4a057dc3aec2b380f46fe363a244496?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Justin Krakoff\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/author\/justin-krakoff\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Merkley Blasts Senate Republicans for Blocking His Bill to Ban Congressional Stock Trading - Merkley","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/","og_locale":"es_MX","og_type":"article","og_title":"Merkley Blasts Senate Republicans for Blocking His Bill to Ban Congressional Stock Trading - Merkley","og_description":"Washington, D.C. \u2013 Oregon\u2019s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after Senate Republicans blocked his Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act: \u201cMembers of Congress are elected to serve the people, not their portfolios. \u201cRather than crack down on Congressional stock trading, Senate Republicans not only blocked my comprehensive legislation to ban this […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/","og_site_name":"Merkley","article_published_time":"2026-10-01T13:52:19+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-10-01T13:52:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":630,"url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_2.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Justin Krakoff","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Justin Krakoff","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/"},"author":{"name":"Justin Krakoff","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/c3d47246c54d8abdcee52f34d61da4fb"},"headline":"Merkley Blasts Senate Republicans for Blocking His Bill to Ban Congressional Stock Trading","datePublished":"2026-10-01T13:52:19+00:00","dateModified":"2026-10-01T13:52:54+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/"},"wordCount":354,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_2.png","keywords":["democracy"],"articleSection":["Press Releases"],"inLanguage":"es-MX"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/","url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/","name":"Merkley Blasts Senate Republicans for Blocking His Bill to Ban Congressional Stock Trading - Merkley","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_2.png","datePublished":"2026-10-01T13:52:19+00:00","dateModified":"2026-10-01T13:52:54+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/c3d47246c54d8abdcee52f34d61da4fb"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"es-MX","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"es-MX","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_2.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026_Press-Release-Photo_2.png","width":1200,"height":630,"caption":"Senator Merkley speaking at a podium."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-his-bill-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Merkley Blasts Senate Republicans for Blocking His Bill to Ban Congressional Stock Trading"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/","name":"merkley","description":"merkley","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"es-MX"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/c3d47246c54d8abdcee52f34d61da4fb","name":"Justin Krakoff","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"es-MX","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1ba3576c3bf3cb581e2e6031e8ab005ce4a057dc3aec2b380f46fe363a244496?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1ba3576c3bf3cb581e2e6031e8ab005ce4a057dc3aec2b380f46fe363a244496?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1ba3576c3bf3cb581e2e6031e8ab005ce4a057dc3aec2b380f46fe363a244496?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Justin Krakoff"},"url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/author\/justin-krakoff\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25545,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25543\/revisions\/25545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}