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In a thirty-second spot released Wednesday, Cait Conley announced she is running to ban congressional stock trading, enact term limits, and end corruption. Congressman Lawler co-sponsored the stock trading ban and voted to pass it four weeks ago, has backed a term limits amendment and pledged to enact term limits since 2022, and voted to expel a corrupt member of his own party from Congress.

Pearl River, NY – 8/19/2026… The Lawler campaign today offered its sincere thanks to Democrat Cait Conley and her stellar team of well-paid media consultants, whose new ad promotes three reforms Congressman Mike Lawler has backed, voted for, or both.

“I’m running to ban congressional and White House stock trading, enact term limits, and end corruption,” Conley wrote in the post launching the spot. The Lawler campaign agrees these are excellent priorities. It knows this because Mike Lawler got there first.

“We want to thank Cait Conley for the endorsement,” said Lawler for Congress spokesman Ciro Riccardi. “She had thirty seconds of airtime and spent most of them listing things Mike Lawler has already done. She even mentioned him by name in her post, which was thoughtful. Next time we can simply send her our talking points and save her production team the research, since she seems to love copy-pasting Mike’s positions so much!”

For the convenience of the Conley campaign’s research department, a summary:

• Banning congressional stock trading. The House passed the Stop Insider Trading Act on July 22, four weeks before Conley’s ad. The bill bars members of Congress, their spouses and their dependent children from buying individual stocks while in office. Lawler was an original co-sponsor and voted yes.
• Term limits. Lawler is a co-sponsor of House Joint Resolution 12, the constitutional amendment limiting service to three terms in the House and two in the Senate. He signed on in February 2025, eighteen months before Cait’s ad went up. He has also signed the U.S. Term Limits pledge.
• Ending corruption. Lawler co-sponsored the resolution to expel George Santos, a corrupt member of his own party, and was one of 105 Republicans who voted to remove him from Congress. Mike Lawler has helped give corrupt lawmakers the boot.

Lawler’s support for a stock trading ban did not start when he decided to run for Congress, unlike Cait. “Stock trading by members of Congress or their spouses should be banned,” he tweeted in May 2025. “The appearance of impropriety, or worse, is too great.” When the ban passed the House, he put it plainly: “If you serve the public, you serve only the public. You don’t get to play the market with one hand while writing the rules with the other.”

Conley’s ad also leaves out a key detail. When the stock trading ban came to the floor, it passed 232 to 198, and just 13 Democrats voted yes. The bill is now before the Senate. If Conley is serious about the cause she has adopted, the Lawler campaign suggests she begin by persuading her own party to stop voting against it, and tell voters whether she would have joined the other 13 Democrats who voted to ban members of Congress from trading stocks.

“If Cait Conley would like to learn about the rest of Mike Lawler’s agenda, he has accepted four televised debates and will happily walk her through it on any of those stages,” Riccardi concluded. “She has had the invitations since June. Until then, we encourage her to keep cutting ads about Mike Lawler’s stellar record. This one was our favorite so far.”

As for Cait Conley’s concern about “partisanship in Washington,” Lawler earned a 99.2 out of 100 in the latest nonpartisan Bridge Grades report card on bipartisanship, the best score in New York’s congressional delegation.

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