U.S. House Financial Services Committee members reintroduced a bill that would block states from imposing financial transaction taxes on, among other securities industry participants, stock exchanges and broker-dealers.
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Representative Peter DeFazio introduced legislation that would levy a 0.03% tax on stock, bond and derivatives transactions in order to "discourage the same speculative financial trading that led to the 2008 Wall Street collapse and 2010 'Flash Crash.'"
Forty-five members of Congress signed a letter urging the Department of Treasury Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to conduct a "full and rigorous" investigation into the potential acquisition of the Chicago Stock Exchange by Chinese company Chongqing Casin Enterprise Group.