ICYMI: Orange County Register: Rep. Dave Min Leads New Anti-Corruption Task Force

Irvine, CA — In a new interview with the Orange County Register, Rep. Dave Min (CA-47) discussed his role as Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s Fighting Corruption Task Force. As Chair, Rep. Min is working to bring back trust in government, saying “We have to restore people’s confidence that the system isn’t rigged against them.” 

In his first six months in office, Rep. Min, a former SEC prosecutor and member of the House Oversight Committee, has led the charge to hold bad actors in the Trump administration accountable and make the government work for the people, which includes his Stock Act 2.0 legislation that bans members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, and top White House officials, among others, from trading stocks. 

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Orange County Register

Rep. Dave Min picked to lead anti-corruption effort for House progressives

Kaitlyn Schallhorn

• Rep. Dave Min has a new assignment: leading the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s new task force on corruption.
• The idea, according to the caucus, is to develop policy and legislation related to anti-corruption.
• Min, D-Irvine, 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.
• And 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.
• “I think it’s important that we don’t give up right now,” said Min. “We see in other places around the world, when democracies start to fail, it’s because people stop having faith in the system and in fairness.”
• “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.
• But Min said he’s an “equal opportunity person,” who wants to ensure rules are followed by both Republicans and Democrats.
• “We shouldn’t have one set of rules for people who are Republicans or Democrats,” Min said. “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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