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(16 Jan 2026)
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Washington - 14 January 2026
1. Wide of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand sitting down for an interview with Associated Press reporter Joey Cappelletti, UPSOUND (English):
Cappelletti: “Can you just give us a high-level description of the bill? What it would do?”
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, (D) New York:
“So the bill bans members of Congress from buying or selling stocks, buying and selling securities, buying and selling commodities, being in the markets because the risk of them buying and selling based on nonpublic information is so high. And so this will penalize members of Congress; they'll have to disgorge their profits. And it also will allow the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) or the Department of Justice to investigate, to see if when they did buy and sell those stocks, they were buying and selling them based on nonpublic information."
3. Wide of Cappelletti asking Senator Gillibrand a question, UPSOUND (English):
Cappelletti: “And they would have to divest if..."
Gillibrand: “If they get elected to Congress, they would have to sell their stocks."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, (D) New York:
“Well, this isn't about Congress policing itself. This would be a ban, and so if members of Congress are buying and selling, the SEC could go after them for securities fraud. They could be prosecuted by the Department of Justice. These would be laws that we would have to follow."
5. Close of AP Reporter Joey Cappelletti listening, nodding
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, (D) New York:
“So we know that 1 in 3 members of Congress are trading stock. And we know that 1 in 7 are not properly disclosing the stocks that they're buying and selling. We also know that members of Congress have a 17.5% higher return rate than the S&P 500 on their stock trades."
7. Mid pan to Gillibrand speaking, UPSOUND (English):
Gillibrand: “And they're just not doing what they're supposed to be doing with disclosing it. So I decided, as many members of Congress have decided, and what Senator (Ashley) Moody has agreed on is that we should ban it."
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, (D) New York:
"We should ban members of Congress from buying and selling stocks, because clearly they are not following the rules, and they are profiting off the nonpublic information they have. And the American public deserves to know that their Congress is just working for them, not working to line their own pockets, not working to make a buck."
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, (D) New York:
“Democrats would love to ban stock trading by not just members of Congress, but all administration, senior administration officials, by the White House, by the president, by the vice president, by the Supreme Court. The perfect bill would be banning it by all people in positions of power and privilege that have nonpublic information. But there's consensus right now that we should at least start with ourselves, ban it for Congress."
10. Wide of Cappelletti asking Senator Gillibrand a question, UPSOUND (English):
Cappelletti: “On that note, the president and vice president are left out of this. Similarly with previous acts, which you supported. Why should the president not be held to the same standard that members of Congress are?
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, (D) New York:
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, (D) New York:
Cappelletti: “So this is a start."
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