A bipartisan group of 20 US senators is pushing for a ban on Congress members trading stocks, proposing an amendment to the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012. The move follows findings that 97 members traded stocks directly impacted by their committee oversight, and that Congress members outperformed the S&P 500 by an average of 17.5%. The proposed amendment would ban trading within 90 days of the bill being signed and extend the ban to the President, Vice President, and families of Congress members from March 2027. The penalty for violations would be a fine of 10% of the traded asset's value.