she and her husband then bought nearly $250,000 of stock in citrix, a company that makes remote workom home software. and so one day chip roy and i were talking, we're talking on the house floor. we're both expressing are discussed. and we said, you know, this ought to not be legal. this ought to be illegal. >> congresswoman abigail spanberger of virginia, democrat and chip roy, texas republican want to ban members of congress from buying and selling stock altogether. they say lawmakers consistently get market moving information before everyone else and can cash in like they did during the pandemic. members of congress bought. >> u.s. stocks clorox and in june and various different pharmaceutical companies. on the other side of the capitol, senator josh hawley says it's basically a legal version of insider trading. the truth is that a lot of the information that members of congress get isn't technically insider information. but yet it's still really beneficial. if you want to try to make a buck on the stock market spanberger and holly's bills, band members, spouses and dependent chil