Push to ban Congress from trading stocks aims to address conflicts of interest

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress and their families execute stock trades worth hundreds of millions annually, raising questions about whether lawmakers could be profiting from insider information or making policy decisions with one eye on their portfolios. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, wants to require members and their spouses to put certain investments into a qualified blind trust while in office — effectively banning them from trading individual stocks. Advertisement "We don't want to be projecting to the American people that we are somehow making decisions when we are doing our job here that's connected to our own profit," Roy said…