2026年9月21日 美国东部时间凌晨5:00 / 福克斯新闻
众议员杨·金提出的决议案将扩大披露规则范围，涵盖周边房产价值等间接收益
作者：查尔斯·克莱茨，福克斯新闻
共和党高层寻求封堵国会自我牟利的漏洞
众议员杨·金警告称，太多职业政客正在“中饱私囊”，她正推动新规则，旨在阻止议员利用专项拨款间接提升自己或家人的财务状况。
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独家报道：尽管众议院已成功限制议员的股票交易行为，但一位加州共和党议员正瞄准她所称的国会自我牟利的另一条途径，指出多年来议员们的财富大幅增长。
众议员杨·金提出的《阻止国会自我牟利决议》，是在7月共和党主导的一项成功举措之后推出的。该举措对股票购买施加了限制，并要求股票出售前需提前数日报备。与此同时，美国各界跨政治派别民众仍对许多议员在公职期间财富快速增长感到不满。
“可能是为一家非营利组织申请专项拨款，而该议员的配偶恰好是该组织的董事会成员或受托人，这将间接惠及其家庭。又或者是为某片公园申请拨款，而这片公园就位于议员本人、其配偶或子女拥有的公寓楼附近，”杨·金在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示。
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配图说明：2021年3月10日，在华盛顿特区国会山举行的听证会上，来自加州的共和党众议员杨·金正在发言。（摄影：丁申- pooled/Getty Images）
“还有就是，议员动用联邦资金在附近修建公园或社区中心，这可能会推高周边房产价值，从而间接让议员及其家庭成员获益。又或是提议修建一条通往议员名下农村土地的道路。”
她的新提案将覆盖所有实质性财务利益——无论是直接还是间接的——且受益对象不限于议员本人。
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配图说明：2011年，时任参议员帕特里克·J·图米（宾夕法尼亚州共和党人）和克莱尔·麦卡斯基尔（密苏里州民主党人）公开反对专项拨款。（亚历克斯·王）
现行众议院规则要求，申请专项拨款的议员必须证明自己及其配偶均未从受款方获得经济利益。杨·金的法案将把这一要求扩大到直系亲属以及周边房产价值等间接经济利益。
“那些认为‘我可以利用社区项目资金申请或为选区争取专项拨款，借此大发横财’的议员们——他们的好日子到头了。”
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“现在正是时候，因为我们看到美国民众已经受够了看着政客们暴富，而普通美国人却在为收支平衡苦苦挣扎，不得不精打细算每一分血汗钱。”
杨·金援引21世纪初阿拉斯加内湾航道的“无处可通之桥”项目作为民众对专项拨款担忧的标志性案例，称随后实施的十年禁令遏制了相关滥用行为。
杨·金表示，禁令实施后出台的保障措施起到了一定作用，但她认为议员们仍能为自己谋取间接利益。她重申，自己的目标并非针对任何个人。
尽管目前已有“佩洛西股票追踪器”等应用程序，让散户投资者可以查看哪位议员在买卖哪只股票，但杨·金表示，她的努力并非针对任何一位同僚。
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“而且，这绝不是在阻止议员为选区争取利益，为选区附近的项目争取合理的纳税人资金，”她说。
“这一点至关重要，”她举例提到自己为奥兰治县争取到的资金，用于预防和恢复近期山灾，以及为选民争取的其他利益。
“这就是我们被派到这里的目的，为选区奋斗，但不能以牺牲——我是说，不能以牺牲我们本应支持的选民利益为代价，中饱私囊。因为华盛顿有太多职业政客，除了自己谁都不管。”
数十年来，无数议员因在专项拨款上的“本事”而饱受批评。
其中一个著名案例是，2006年时任众议院议长丹尼斯·哈斯特尔特（伊利诺伊州共和党人）因一项2.07亿美元的 Parkway 专项拨款项目遭到批评，该项目就位于他名下的房产附近。
在这场风波中，这位议长的律师驳斥了当时一个善政团体提出的所谓“诽谤性”指控。该律师称，批评哈斯特尔特参与该项目，就如同“基于国会大厦的翻新工程而抱怨在亚历山大的一笔购房交易”。
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2023年，《波士顿环球报》报道称，马萨诸塞州民主党众议员斯蒂芬·林奇争取到的专项拨款，惠及了他妻子任职的波士顿一家健康中心。
其中200万美元拨款流向了南波士顿社区健康中心，另有100万美元流向了林奇妻子担任无薪董事的一家基金会。福克斯新闻数字频道已联系林奇征求评论。
弗吉尼亚州民主党参议员蒂姆·凯恩此前曾为乔治梅森大学争取到总计350万美元的专项拨款，而他的妻子曾担任该校临时校长，后来又成为该校教授。
凯恩的一位发言人当时在接受《信使报》采访时表示，这些专项拨款“丝毫未受霍尔顿部长的影响”——此处指前弗吉尼亚州教育部长安妮·霍尔顿。
“霍尔顿部长没有参与[国会定向支出]CDS流程，也没有参与乔治梅森大学的CDS申请，”这位发言人补充道。“参议员凯恩和霍尔顿部长从未讨论过这些申请。”
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随着参议院即将就股票交易禁令展开辩论，杨·金表示，她的法案将填补这一空白，而这项法案得到了罕见的压倒性两党支持。
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GOP takes aim at Congress’ next ‘get filthy rich’ loophole after stock-trading ban
September 21, 2026 5:00am EDT / Fox News
Rep Young Kim’s resolution would extend disclosure rules to cover indirect benefits like nearby property values
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Top Republican seeks to close loophole to congressional self-enrichment
Rep. Young Kim warns that too many career politicians are “lining their own pockets” as she pushes new rules aimed at blocking lawmakers from using earmarks to indirectly boost their own or their families’ finances.
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EXCLUSIVE: While the House successfully moved to rein in lawmakers’ stock trading, a California Republican is targeting what she says is another avenue for congressional self-enrichment, citing members whose wealth has multiplied over the years.
Rep. Young Kim’s Stop Congressional Self-Enrichment Resolution comes after a successful GOP-led effort in July that imposed restrictions on stock purchases and requires several days’ notice before stock sales. It also comes as Americans across the political spectrum remain frustrated by many lawmakers’ rapidly growing wealth while in public office.
“It could be earmarking a nonprofit organization where a member’s spouse sits on the board of directors or board of trustees, so it will indirectly benefit the family. Or it could earmark for a park at, let’s say, an apartment building that a member or member’s spouse or member’s children owns,” Kim told Fox News Digital.
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Representative Young Kim, a Republican from California, speaks during a hearing March 10, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.(Photo by Ting Shen-Pool/Getty Images)
“And with the federal funds that the member brings and build the park nearby or community center nearby, it could increase the property value and therefore indirectly benefiting the member and their family members. Maybe asking to build a road up to rural land the member owns.”
Her new push would cover all material financial interests — direct or indirect — that benefit people beyond the lawmaker themselves.
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Then-Sens. Patrick J. Toomey, R-Pa., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., speak out against earmarks in 2011.(Alex Wong)
Current House rules require members requesting an earmark to certify that neither they nor their spouses have a financial interest in the recipient. Kim’s bill would extend that requirement to immediate family members and indirect financial interests, such as nearby property values.
“The days of members thinking that ‘I can use the community project funding request or bringing the earmarks for my district and get filthy rich off of it’— those days are numbered.”
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“This is a good time because we see Americans are sick and tired of watching politicians getting filthy rich while average Americans are worrying about making ends meet and stretch every dollar that they earn.”
Citing the “Bridge to Nowhere” project in Alaska’s Inside Passage in the early 2000s as a symbol of concerns over earmarks, Kim said the ensuing decade-long moratorium curbed abuse.
Kim said safeguards put in place after the moratorium have helped, but argued members are still able to provide themselves with indirect benefits. She reiterated that she is not targeting any individuals.
While there are now apps out there like the “Pelosi Stock Tracker” and others that let retail investors see which stocks are being bought or sold by which members, Kim said her effort does not target any one colleague.
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“And, this is not in any way discouraging members to fight for their districts and bring in the appropriate taxpayer dollars for projects near their districts,” she said.
“That is so important,” she said, pointing to funding she brought to Orange County to prevent and recover from recent wildfires, among other interests for her constituents.
“That’s what we are sent to do, fight for our district, but not at the expense of, you know, enriching. I mean, not at the expense of hurting our very constituents that we are trying to support while we are lining our pockets, because there are too many career politicians in Washington looking out for no one but themselves.”
Innumerable lawmakers have come under fire over the decades for their earmarking prowess.
In one notable case, then-House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., faced criticism in 2006 over a $207 million earmark to build a parkway near property he owned.
Amid the kerfuffle, an attorney for the leader pushed back on what he called a “libelous” allegation from a good-government group about it at the time. The attorney said criticizing Hastert for the project was akin to “complaining about a purchase in Alexandria based on renovations at the Capitol.”
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In 2023, the Boston Globe reported that earmarks secured by Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., benefited a health center in Boston where his wife was employed.
Two million dollars went to the South Boston Community Health Center, and another $1 million went to a foundation where Lynch’s wife was an unpaid director. Fox News Digital reached out to Lynch for comment.
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., previously secured earmarks totaling $3.5 million for George Mason University, where his wife had served as interim president and later as a professor.
The earmarks “are in no way influenced by Secretary Holton,” a Kaine spokesperson told The Messenger news outlet at the time — referencing former Virginia Education Secretary Anne Holton.
“Secretary Holton has no involvement in the [Congressionally Directed Spending] CDS process, and no involvement in the George Mason CDS requests,” the spokesperson added. “Senator Kaine and Secretary Holton have not discussed the requests.”
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With the Senate next to take up stock trading prohibitions, Kim’s bill stands as a gap closer, she said, on a practice that has rare emphatic bipartisan support.
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Fox News Digital’s Aaron Kliegman contributed to this report.
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