Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xt and Show Podcast.

Welcome into the third hour of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xt and Show everyone.

Thanks for rolling with us. We are moving fast, moving through a lot as we always do.

And as promised, we are now joined by Senator Josh Holly of Missouri.

Got a lot to talk about. Senator Holly, appreciate you coming back to hang out with us. Thanks so much, sir.

Thanks for having me.

I want to start with this because we've got a lot of things to get through today in the new cycle.

We've obviously got doubling down on the COVID mandates that don't seem to have worked very well,

as well as the inflation, everything else. But I want to start with you pushing for an end.

This might seem a little inside baseball, the folks, or inside the beltway to folks,

but an end to members of Congress actively trading stocks.

Why is that a problem for everyone to know what would give us that scope and scale,

and then what should be done about it?

Well, all you have to know about why it's a problem is the fact that Nancy Pelosi is absolutely

a desperately forced stock trading. So, you know, she's red, of course.

And she wants to continue to be able to trade individual stocks and what she and her husband do

frequently and make millions of dollars on it. And the problem with it is that,

you know, members of Congress are often privy to information about what policies are coming down

the pie, about what the effect of legislation might be. And this is tough. It's not necessarily

inside of trading. I mean, I'm not alleging that people have committed any crimes here.

All those folks have been investigated for that in the past. But here's my bottom line.

I think that when people go to Congress, they ought to be focused on doing what the voters

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