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    <item congress="119" measure-type="hr" measure-number="396" measure-id="id119hr396" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2025-01-14" update-date="2025-02-13">
        <title>TRUST in Congress Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id119hr396v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2025-02-13">
            <action-date>2025-01-14</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress Act or the TRUST in Congress Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust (i.e., an arrangement in which certain financial holdings are placed in someone else's control to avoid a possible conflict of interest) until 180 days after the end of their tenure as a Member of Congress. </p>]]></summary-text>
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