Becca Balint is a co-sponsor of the Restore Trust in Congress Act, introduced by Rep. Chip Roy in 2025.
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… themselves, Vermont’s congressional delegation wants to ban all members of Congress from trading stocks to avoid even the appearance that they may be profiting off their position, which often provides them access to information before the rest of the public. Balint has co-sponsored the Restore Trust in Congress Act, a bipartisan stock-ban bill introduced by Republican Rep. Chip Roy in 2025. Most notably, the bill would ban members of Congress and their immediate family members from owning or selling stocks. …
Legiscan's official-data listing for H.R.5106, the Restore Trust in Congress Act introduced September 3, 2025, names Rep. Chip Roy and Rep. Becca Balint among its sponsors, which supports the claim that Balint co-sponsored a Roy-introduced 2025 bill of that name.
What we found
Supports. Legiscan's record for the Restore Trust in Congress Act (HB5106, 119th Congress) lists it as introduced September 3, 2025, with sponsors Rep. Chip Roy [R-TX] and Rep. Becca Balint, consistent with the claim's core assertion.[3]
Supports. Billtrack50 describes the Restore Trust in Congress Act as prohibiting Members of Congress, their spouses, and dependent children from stock trading, matching the 'stock-ban bill' framing and the bipartisan character in the claim.[4]
Context. Balint's official sponsored-bills page excerpt does not show this bill, and a Roy press release describes a separate bipartisan insider-trading bill introduced with Rep. Magaziner, so the sponsor relationship rests mainly on the Legiscan listing.[1][2]
Context. The VTDigger article repeats the claim's exact wording, so it is the claimant's own framing rather than independent corroboration.[5]
Sources
5 sources: 2 primary, 3 not rated
- 1Sponsored Bills | U.S. Representative Becca Balintbalint.house.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2Reps. Roy, Magaziner Introduce Historic Bipartisan Bill to ...roy.house.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 3US HB5106 | 2025-2026 | 119th Congresslegiscan.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4US HR5106billtrack50.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Vermont's congressional members are rich. But they don't ...vtdigger.org · not rated · cited for: context
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