Campaign Legal Center Letter to the U.S. Senate Opposing the Stop Insider Trading Act and the Voter ID Act

On September 28, 2026, Campaign Legal Center sent a letter to every member of the U.S. Senate, urging all lawmakers to reject H.R. 7008, a legislative package combining two unrelated bills: the Stop Insider Trading Act and the Voter ID Act. The Stop Insider Trading Act purports to address widespread concerns around congressional stock trading. Yet, it would not actually ban lawmakers from trading stocks or stop members from unduly profiting from their official positions. It also contains exceptions that regrettably swallow the few new rules it does try to enact. As a whole, this bill fails to solve the core ethical problems that have eroded confidence in Congress for years. Meanwhile, the Voter ID Act — which mostly mirrors a section of the deeply unpopular SAVE Act — aims to impose onerous new requirements on voting. It would demand Americans provide ID to cast a ballot but only accept an unreasonably narrow list of acceptable types of documentation. It excludes widely held and reliable forms of ID that young people and voters of color disproportionally rely on, while failing to account for the diversity of Tribal identification practices. Moreover, the bill would not provide sufficient safeguards to ensure that voters who cannot meet its strict requirements are still able to prove their eligibility and participate. If either of these proposals were passed, both would seriously undermine our democracy. CLC’s letter therefore urges the Senate to vote no on these measures and instead pursue genuine reforms that meaningfully protect participation and accountability in our system of government.