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By Sydney TheCMO
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Prediction Markets Also in Steil's Crosshairs. The stock trading bill isn't the only thing Steil's been working on.
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The Crypto Angle: CLARITY Act and the 2029 Question. There's a separate legislative track running in parallel that crypto traders can't ignore.
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The House voted. 232 to 198. The Stop Insider Trading Act cleared its first major hurdle, and now the hard part starts.
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The bill, sponsored by Representative Bryan Steil of Wisconsin, would bar members of Congress, their spouses, and dependent children from buying publicly traded stocks.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren came out swinging against the legislation almost immediately. Her core complaint isn't that the bill is useless — it's that it doesn't go far enough.
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The stock trading bill isn't the only thing Steil's been working on. Back in June, he introduced a separate piece of legislation called the Stop Lawmakers from Predicting Act.
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The motivation behind that bill isn't abstract. Two cases got a lot of attention. A soldier allegedly made over $400,000 betting on the removal of Venezuela's President Nicolás…
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The proposed penalties under the Stop Lawmakers from Predicting Act are specific: violators would pay either a $2,000 fee or 10% of the value of the prohibited bets, whichever…
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See also: BitMEX Hit With 622 BTC Class Action Suit Filed in Southern District of New York
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There's a separate legislative track running in parallel that crypto traders can't ignore. The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act — the CLARITY Act — is under Senate consideration…
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The contrast between the two bills is pretty sharp. One deals with traditional equities, the other with crypto and digital assets.
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For prediction market platforms specifically, the stakes are real. Kalshi and Polymarket have spent years fighting for legitimacy in U.S.
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The Senate's review of the Stop Insider Trading Act will tell a lot about whether Congress is actually willing to impose meaningful limits on its own financial behavior.
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More context: ICE Drops $2 Billion on Polymarket as Kalshi Hits $22 Billion Valuation
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Steil's two bills together — the stock trading restrictions and the prediction market ban — amount to a broader push to clean up how lawmakers interact with financial markets.
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