Rep. Chip Roy Press Office shared statements on September 3, 2025, highlighting Rep. Chip Roy’s sponsorship of a new bill aimed at banning members of Congress from owning or trading individual stocks.
In a tweet referencing Newsday, the press office quoted: “.@Newsday: ‘Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, the bill’s lead sponsor, said that the group had been meeting for the last several months, and some sponsors had actually been working on this for years.'” (September 3, 2025).
A subsequent post cited Roll Call: “.@rollcall: ‘Introduced by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, the new bill would ban members of Congress from owning or trading individual stocks.'” (September 3, 2025).
The office also posted a direct quote from Rep. Roy: “They do not send us here to enrich ourselves while we are voting on the issues they send us here to fix and address and then have members who are trading stocks on the very issues they’re supposed to be voting on,” (September 3, 2025).
Rep. Chip Roy represents Texas in Congress and has a record of electoral victories in recent years. He won re-election in 2024 against Kristin Hook with nearly 62% of the vote; previous wins include defeating Claudia Zapata in 2022 with over 62%, Wendy Davis in 2020 with just over half the votes cast, and Joseph Kopser in 2018 by a narrow margin.
