On July 22, 2026, the House of Representatives passed the Stop Insider Trading Act. The official roll call records H.R. 7008 passing 232 to 198, and every single Republican who voted, voted yes.

It was a good day for press releases. Members went home and told constituents they had finally done something about the thing everybody hates: politicians getting rich on information the rest of us don't have.

Then they went back to trading.

The gap nobody mentions

Passing the House is not becoming law. As of August 6, 2026, H.R. 7008 had been read a second time in the Senate and parked on the Legislative Calendar as General Orders Calendar No. 548. That's where it sits.

Which means that in the weeks after that vote, nothing changed. Members who had just voted to ban the practice were free to keep doing it, and a number of them did.

And here's the part that makes the whole thing worse: even if the bill became law tomorrow, it wouldn't stop most of this. The Stop Insider Trading Act bans members from making new purchases of individual stocks — but lets them keep everything they already own, reinvest the dividends, and sell whenever they like. Rep. Pramila Jayapal called it a "fake stock trading ban." Rep. Joe Morelle said it was "so filled with holes, it would make Swiss cheese blush." It also carried a second payload most people never heard about — strict new voter ID rules that would bar student IDs and require voters to photocopy their ID to vote by mail.

So: a ban that doesn't ban much, that hasn't taken effect, attached to voter restrictions. Below are the Republicans on this site who voted for it and whose own disclosure filings show trades dated on or after that same July 22.

Every trade date below comes from members' own filings, compiled by Capitol Trades. Every vote below is confirmed against the House Clerk's roll call.

Max Miller — traded the same day he voted

Max Miller voted yes on July 22. His most recent reported trade is dated July 22 — the same day.

Miller has 58 reported trades across 15 companies in the last three years, worth about $570,000 in total volume.

He is also, at the moment, the Republican his own colleagues are trying not to talk about. His ex-wife has accused him of assaulting her and their young child; he denies it. He refused to leave his race before Ohio's ballot deadline. And of the 16 Republicans his leadership PAC has funded this cycle, only one has returned the money.

Michael Rulli — still trading in August

Michael Rulli voted yes. His most recent reported trade is dated August 6, 2026 — 15 days later. Thirty-two trades across 18 companies, about $256,000 in volume.

This is the same congressman who, on August 11, was found by NOTUS to have been months late disclosing 22 stock trades — Palantir, Pfizer, Nvidia, Meta and more, worth up to $330,000 — while sitting on the committee with jurisdiction over drug safety and telecom. His office wouldn't say whether he paid the fine.

He voted to ban the practice, kept trading, and hadn't finished disclosing the last batch.

Kevin Hern — $34 million in volume

Kevin Hern voted yes. His most recent reported trade is dated August 5, 2026.

Hern's disclosures over the last three years show 194 trades across 78 different companies, with a total volume of about $34.16 million — far and away the largest of anyone on this list.

Hern sits on the Ways and Means Committee, which writes the federal tax code, including the tax provisions of Trump's budget bill. He was also nearly two dozen trades late under the existing disclosure law, on trades worth up to $2.7 million.

Maria Elvira Salazar — she writes the rules for the stock market

Maria Elvira Salazar voted yes. Her most recent reported trade is dated July 28, 2026. Eighty-five trades, 39 companies, roughly $6.95 million in volume.

Salazar sits on the House Financial Services Committee — and specifically on its Subcommittee on Capital Markets, the panel with jurisdiction over the securities markets and the Securities and Exchange Commission. We went through her own periodic transaction reports and counted 67 trades between March and July of this year alone.

The member who helps write the rules for the stock market is one of the most active traders in it.

Diana Harshbarger — 700 late trades, and still going

Diana Harshbarger voted yes. Her most recent reported trade is dated July 27, 2026. Sixty trades, 32 companies, about $4.32 million.

Harshbarger has the largest count of late-filed trades among the Republicans we cover: she was late on more than 700 stock trades worth between $728,000 and $10.9 million.

She's a pharmacist who vice-chairs the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee — the panel that writes the reimbursement rules for the pharmacy industry she came from.

David Taylor — 210 trades in a first term

David Taylor voted yes. His most recent reported trade is dated July 24, 2026 — two days after. Two hundred and ten trades across 30 companies, about $1.88 million.

Taylor is a freshman. Within a month of being sworn in he bought Visa and JPMorgan Chase, and by March 2026 Signal Statewide had already clocked him as the 43rd biggest trader by volume in the entire Congress — the top 8% of all 538 members of the House and Senate, in his first year.

Asked whether members of Congress should be allowed to trade individual stocks at all, he wouldn't say. He voted yes on a bill saying they shouldn't, then kept trading.

John McGuire — the one who already showed us how this works

John McGuire voted yes. His most recent reported trade is dated July 31, 2026.

McGuire's file is the clearest illustration of why any of this matters. In 2026 he voted for a bill targeting BlackRock, then sold his BlackRock stock two weeks later — four days before the bill became law.

That's the whole argument for a ban, executed by a man who then voted for one.

What the vote was actually for

There is a version of this story where seven members simply hadn't gotten around to unwinding their portfolios yet. That would be fair, if the bill were law and the clock were running.

It isn't. The bill is on a Senate calendar. Nothing obliges any of them to stop, and the bill wouldn't make them sell what they already hold even if it passed.

That's what makes the July 22 vote so useful to the people who cast it. It generates the headline — voted to ban congressional stock trading — without generating a single consequence. Forty-five of the Republicans on this site have already broken the disclosure law that's been on the books since 2012, a law whose maximum penalty is $200 and is often waived.

They passed a new law about the old law they don't follow, and it hasn't taken effect, and they're still trading.

The next time one of them tells you they voted to clean up Congress, ask what they bought that week.

Sources

House Clerk Roll Call 280 (H.R. 7008, On Passage, July 22, 2026) for every vote cited. Congress.gov for the bill's Senate status. Trade dates, counts and volumes from members' own disclosure filings as compiled by Capitol Trades; its data covers the past three years.