A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday launched a renewed effort to ban members of Congress from trading stock. "Congress should not be here to make a buck," Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said at a press conference Wednesday on Capitol Hill. "There is no reason why members of Congress ought to be profiting off of the information that only they get." The proposal is the latest chapter in a years-long saga in Congress to pass regulations that limit lawmakers' ability to buy and sell stocks. And it will be the first of these to get formal consideration by a Senate committee — in this case the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee on July 24. Ethics exp