{"id":609918,"date":"2026-06-05T13:52:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/house-gop-eyes-summer-vote-on-prediction-market-restrictions-for-lawmakers\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:52:42","slug":"house-gop-eyes-summer-vote-on-prediction-market-restrictions-for-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/house-gop-eyes-summer-vote-on-prediction-market-restrictions-for-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP eyes summer vote on prediction market restrictions for lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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House Republicans plan a summer vote on a congressional stock trading ban and new restrictions on lawmakers\u2019 prediction market activity.<\/p>\n

Republicans in the US House of Representatives are moving to add prediction market restrictions to a stalled congressional stock trading ban, as lawmakers scrutinize whether members of Congress should be allowed to wager on elections or public policy.<\/p>\n

House Administration Committee Chair Bryan Steil plans to attach prediction market provisions to H.R. 7008<\/a>, the House\u2019s stalled stock trading ban bill, before it reaches the floor, Bloomberg Government reported<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n

Steil said he expects House leaders to schedule a vote on the measure, which would combine stock trading limits with new restrictions on lawmakers\u2019 use of prediction markets.<\/p>\n

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House Republicans plan a summer vote on a congressional stock trading ban and new restrictions on lawmakers\u2019 prediction market activity. Republicans in the US House of Representatives are moving to add prediction market restrictions to a stalled congressional stock trading ban, as lawmakers scrutinize whether members of Congress should be allowed to wager on elections […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":609919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-609918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}