Yeah, I definitely don't want to write it off entirely.
The STOCK act passed 96-3, so while congress might not tend to be keen on regulating themselves, it's not completely allergic.
Interestingly, one of the 3 'no' votes on the STOCK act was later engaged in some of the fishiest trading I've seen around the start of COVID. Here's a visual I made on it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/gwocvt/sen...