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Senate Democrats sink 'toothless' stock trading ban, data center bill in last act before election recess

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Two separate proposals to ban member stock trading while in office and address data center-related utility costs failed Wednesday amid Democratic opposition.

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Both outlets center on Senate Democrats opposing a stock-trading ban, and both frame the measure as weak or inadequate. CNBC bundles that vote with a separate failed data-center bill and says the two proposals failed amid Democratic opposition, while Newsweek focuses only on the trading-ban vote and, in its extract, highlights Chuck Schumer’s criticism of Republican “Swiss-cheese legislating.”

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