In the 117th Congress (Jan 2021–Jan 2023), several bills were introduced to ban or sharply restrict stock trading by members of Congress, but none received a floor vote in either chamber, so we never observe whether they would have drawn a “huge bipartisan majority.”

Key facts:

• Senator Jon Ossoff introduced the Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act (S.3494) on January 12, 2022. It was referred to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and never moved beyond committee; tracking sites describe it as a partisan Democratic bill with Democratic-only cosponsors. (congress.gov)
• Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Steve Daines co‑sponsored the Bipartisan Ban on Congressional Stock Ownership Act of 2022 (S.3631) with both Republican and Democratic cosponsors. The bill received a hearing but remained at “Introduced” status and did not receive a Senate floor vote. (congress.gov)
• A House companion, H.R. 6678, also titled the Bipartisan Ban on Congressional Stock Ownership Act of 2022, likewise had cosponsors from both parties but was referred to committees and never brought to a House floor vote. (congress.gov)
• Contemporary ethics analyses note that over half of members of Congress owned individual stocks and many engaged in significant trading, with dozens violating the STOCK Act’s disclosure rules during the 117th Congress, indicating that many members had personal financial exposure to such a ban. (campaignlegal.org) That context makes strong resistance plausible, but it still doesn’t tell us definitively how a full roll‑call vote would have gone.

Because no comprehensive ban or severe restriction on congressional stock trading came to an actual up‑or‑down vote in the 117th Congress, we have no empirical record of whether it would have obtained a “huge bipartisan majority.” The existence of a few bipartisan bills with relatively modest numbers of cosponsors suggests some cross‑party support but does not establish overwhelming, chamber‑wide backing. Therefore, the prediction that such a bill would get a huge bipartisan majority in that specific Congress remains a counterfactual that cannot be verified or falsified from the available legislative record, making the outcome ambiguous rather than clearly right or wrong.