{"id":1673198,"date":"2022-10-05T05:05:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T09:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1673198"},"modified":"2022-10-05T05:05:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T09:05:58","slug":"the-stock-market-made-nancy-pelosi-rich-now-she-wants-to-ban-her-colleagues-from-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-stock-market-made-nancy-pelosi-rich-now-she-wants-to-ban-her-colleagues-from-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stock Market Made Nancy Pelosi Rich. Now, She Wants To Ban Her Colleagues From Trading."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-stock-market-made-nancy-pelosi-rich-now-she-wants-to-ban-her-colleagues-from-trading%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1673198&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">House speaker&#8217;s fortune has grown $140 million since 2008, thanks in part to her husband&#8217;s trades<\/p>\n<p>   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Paul. \/ AP   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-kerr\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Kerr\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Kerr<\/a> \u2022 October 5, 2022 5:00 am  <\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) has seen her net worth increase by $140 million since the 2008 financial crisis thanks in no small part to her husband\u2019s fortuitous trades in companies she has worked to subsidize. Now, she&#8217;s trying to pull up the ladder behind her: In what may be her final months as a member of Congress, she\u2019s backing a proposal that would prohibit her colleagues from buying or selling individual stocks.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/15\/house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-opposes-banning-stock-buys-by-congress-members.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scoffed<\/a> at the idea of banning lawmakers from trading individual stocks as recently as December, saying that she and her colleagues should be able to fully participate in the free market economy. After rejecting similar proposals, Pelosi is throwing her weight behind legislation that would ban stock trading among members of Congress and other senior government officials. House Democratic leaders introduced the Combating Financial Conflicts of Interest in Government Act last Tuesday but failed to bring the measure to a vote before adjourning for the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi has been dogged by allegations that her husband, Paul Pelosi, trades stocks on inside information gleaned from her position in Congress. In March, Paul Pelosi exercised options to buy up to $5 million worth of Tesla stock as the speaker pushed for electric vehicle subsidies, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/streaklinks.com\/BOhGRDDLi9_ABcS6oA-vjx6d\/https%3A%2F%2Ffreebeacon.com%2Fdemocrats%2Fpelosis-electric-car-windfall%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. And in June, Paul Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/streaklinks.com\/BOhGRDTzM1S4j_6McAKMIguW\/https%3A%2F%2Ffreebeacon.com%2Fdemocrats%2Fwolf-of-washington-pelosi-is-poised-to-score-big-from-semiconductor-bill%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exercised<\/a> call options to buy up to $5 million in the graphics card manufacturer Nvidia just weeks before the House considered a bill to provide more than $50 billion in subsidies to domestic semiconductor manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/streaklinks.com\/BOhGRDPrq0B8rSzLzwyfe5Uc\/https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fhouse%2F526569-nominated-for-another-speaker-term-pelosi-says-its-her-last%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in November 2020 after being nominated for a fourth term as speaker that she would relinquish the gavel at the end of 2022. And while she announced in January that she would run for reelection in 2022, there is rampant speculation that she will depart Congress should Republicans retake the House in the upcoming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) has seen her net worth increase by $140 million since the 2008 financial crisis thanks in no small part to her husband\u2019s fortuitous trades in companies she has worked to subsidize. Now, she&#8217;s trying to pull up the ladder behind her: In what may be her final months as a member of Congress, she\u2019s backing a proposal that would prohibit her colleagues from buying or selling individual stocks.<br \/>\nThe post The Stock Market Made Nancy Pelosi Rich. Now, She Wants To Ban Her Colleagues From Trading. appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}