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Josh Hawley

Republican U.S. Senator from Missouri; sponsor of the HONEST Act.

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Senate committee vote on the HONEST Act, July 2025 the only Republican on the committee to vote yes, with the Democrats; said blind trusts are “often workarounds” Scholarship & press 1 2

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GOP Sen. Josh Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban, CBS News, 31 Jul 2025. Scholarship & press
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri joined Democrats Wednesday to advance legislation that would ban members of Congress from buying, selling or owning individual stocks.
Hawley and Senate Democrats on the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs voted the legislation out of committee, with all other Republicans on the committee voting against it.
Some Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security Committee insisted that blind trusts are sufficiently restrictive. But Hawley said blind trusts are "often workarounds,"
Trump calls GOP’s Hawley ‘second tier’ senator after bill to ban stock trades in government advances, Associated Press, 30 Jul 2025. Scholarship & press
It also requires the elected officials to divest from all covered investments, but not until starting at the beginning of their next term in office — shielding Trump from that requirement.
Hawley's legislation with the panel's top Democrat, Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan, sailed out of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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