
Entry 032Dec 15, 2021
“We are a free market economy. They should be able to participate in that.”32
32Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House (D-CA), Speaker's weekly press conference, U.S. Capitol, December 15, 2021. Source
Why it’s on the record. Under public pressure, she reversed at her weekly press conference on Feb. 9, 2022: 'And if that's what the Members want to do, then that's what we will do.' The House never passed a ban under her speakership.
On the record
A reporter cited an Insider investigation finding 49 members had violated the STOCK Act. Asked why members and spouses shouldn't be banned from trading individual stocks, Pelosi gave this answer.
- Said by
- Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House (D-CA)
- Where
- Speaker's weekly press conference, U.S. Capitol
- When
- Dec 15, 2021
- Source
- Speaker's weekly press conference, U.S. Capitol, December 15, 2021