2 outlets · filed 30 September 2026
Senate Democrats sink 'toothless' stock trading ban, data center bill in last act before election recess
Two separate proposals to ban member stock trading while in office and address data center-related utility costs failed Wednesday amid Democratic opposition.
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Both outlets center on Senate Democrats opposing a stock-trading ban, and both frame the measure as weak or inadequate. CNBC bundles that vote with a separate failed data-center bill and says the two proposals failed amid Democratic opposition, while Newsweek focuses only on the trading-ban vote and, in its extract, highlights Chuck Schumer’s criticism of Republican “Swiss-cheese legislating.”
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