Dave Min: From Prosecuting Wall Street to Fighting Corruption in Congress

Earlier this year, he introduced the Stock Act 2.0 — banning members of Congress and other top federal leaders from trading stocks. He was also tapped to chair the new Fighting Corruption Task Force, solidifying his leadership role in cracking down on abuse and restoring accountability.

“We have to restore people’s confidence that the system isn’t rigged against them,” Min said.

DCCC Spokesperson Anna Elsasser:
“Dave Min has spent his entire career holding the powerful accountable — as a prosecutor taking on Wall Street fraud and now in Congress, leading the charge to root out corruption. While Trump and Republicans put self-interest ahead of the public, Min is working to restore faith in government and ensure leaders play by the same rules as everyone else.”

Read more about his leadership role:

• Rep. Dave Min has a new assignment: leading the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s new task force on corruption.
• The idea… is to develop policy and legislation related to anti-corruption. Min…said some of that work can center on legislation banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks, particularly amid President Donald Trump’s tariff proposals, and reining in just how much the White House can ignore Congress on certain policy and funding decisions.
• …Min said he hopes to make anti-corruption a key issue during his congressional tenure. At the top of the agenda, Min said, is figuring out how to restore people’s faith in their government.
• “We have to restore people’s confidence that the system isn’t rigged against them,” Min said. Min acknowledged that this work is for the Progressive Caucus — although he also said he’s keen on working on anti-corruption issues outside of the task force as well, noting that he started his career prosecuting fraud on Wall Street as an attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
• He’s also a member of the House Oversight Committee, which works on government accountability issues.
• “We shouldn’t have one set of rules for people who are powerful or not powerful, and we shouldn’t have one set of rules for people who are rich or not rich…That’s not how America is supposed to work,” the former state senator said. “And that’s how, generally, I think we should approach an anti-corruption agenda.”

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