By Richard Cowan

WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) – A bipartisan coalition in the U.S. Congress is seeking action to ban lawmakers from buying and selling individual stocks, a practice that has long raised ethics questions and is stoking infighting among lawmakers over how deeply to regulate their personal finances.

Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida late on Tuesday kicked off a drive to force votes in the House of Representatives on a bipartisan bill with more than 100 co-sponsors.

If Luna can manage to get 218 House of Representatives members, a simple majority, to sign her “discharge petition” for releasing the legislation from the control of the House Administration Committee, backers can then orchestrate a rebellion against House Speaker Mike Johnson and demand promp

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