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Elaine G. Luria

Her plan leads with banning members of Congress and their families from trading individual stocks while in office, and adds an end to prediction-market insider trading, mandatory jail time for members who steal from taxpayers, campaign finance reform to get dark money out of politics, and an end to what she calls a broken pardon system.

Elaine Luria for Congress

Jen A. Kiggans

Her campaign's issues page states no position on this subject. Its fifteen sections run from the cost of living to the protection of women's sports and include government spending, oversight of federal agencies and securing our elections, but none addresses members' stock trading, campaign finance or money in politics. Her record holds action on the subject her page does not claim: she cosponsored the ETHICS Act in both of her Congresses, H.R. 2678 in the 118th and H.R. 4890 in the 119th, and was an original cosponsor of H.R. 7008, the Stop Insider Trading Act, voting Yea when the House passed it 232 to 198 on July 22, 2026. Her own X posts were collected into this desk's private, unreviewed research packet in this pass, and no excerpt from them may be displayed before the human review and the deletion-and-edit recheck the collection policy requires, so no silence is claimed beyond that page.

Kiggans for Congress Congress.gov Congress.gov Congress.gov Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

Geral D. "Bishop" Staten

No stated position on government accountability or money in politics. The nearest thing in his own words is one answer in the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey he submitted on December 4, 2025, that two years is the right term length for a representative, "Yes. Keeps the seat fresh or steady pending voters choice.", which is a view on term length and not on ethics rules, disclosure or campaign money; his campaign message "Purpose Over Politics" is a slogan the survey does not develop into a position. He has no campaign website, and nothing else the desk could read — his Facebook profile and the ten reels on it, opened in a signed-in browser on September 13, 2026 — states a policy position on any subject. The search is bounded and unfinished, and the page it has not reached is the Virginia Mercury's voter guide for this contest, which is where a reader would most expect his answers; the source notes below record what was read, what was not, and why.

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J. Matt Baker

His platform says billionaire donors have too much power over the courts and policy, that the campaign accepts no PAC money, and that he will support restoring consensus requirements for lifetime judicial appointments and independent redistricting nationwide.

Matt Baker for Congress
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Evidence timeline

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  1. Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    campaign position

    Elaine G. Luria: Not comparable yet

    The first item of her plan is a ban on members of Congress and their families trading individual stocks while in office. Across the 116th and 117th Congresses she sponsored 45 bills and resolutions and two floor amendments and cosponsored 1,002 measures. Reading the official titles of all of them, the check found none on congressional stock trading, insider trading by members, divestment, blind trusts, or members' conflicts of interest. This is a proposal for a future term, and her two terms hold no action on it either way. Limit: A candidate's plan for a term not yet served has no matching record, so this card compares nothing and reaches no verdict about her. The search was of official bill and resolution titles across her 1,049 sponsorships and cosponsorships; a measure whose title does not name the subject, or work done inside a committee or a rule, would not appear. It says nothing about any other candidate's record on the same subject. Her words here were read in the Internet Archive's snapshot of 2026-08-03, because her campaign site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers, and the wording is unconfirmed against the live page.

    Elaine Luria for Congress Congress.gov
  2. Occurred Mar 3, 2021

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    Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated record claim

    Her plan says she supported legislation overturning Citizens United while in Congress and will keep fighting for the For the People Act. She cosponsored the constitutional amendment offered to overturn the decision in both of her Congresses: H.J.Res. 2 in the 116th, one of 221 cosponsors, and H.J.Res. 1 in the 117th, one of 180. Both were referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties and went no further. She also cosponsored the For the People Act, H.R. 1 of the 117th Congress, and voted Yea on its passage on March 3, 2021 (Roll Call 62, passed 220 to 210); it was received in the Senate and was not enacted. Limit: She says she supported the legislation, which is what cosponsoring and voting for it are; she does not claim to have sponsored either measure, and she did not. Neither became law and the constitutional amendment never left subcommittee. The check reads the cosponsor rosters and the Clerk's roll call, not the bills' contents, so nothing here assesses whether either measure would have the effect she describes. Her words here were read in the Internet Archive's snapshot of 2026-08-03, because her campaign site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers, and the wording is unconfirmed against the live page.

    Elaine Luria for Congress Congress.gov Congress.gov Congress.gov Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

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