That bill has 93 co-sponsors, 91 of whom are Republican.

Many Democrats, meanwhile, have recently migrated to a bill called the Restore Trust in Government Act, which would institute a total ban on trading and ownership of individual stocks for lawmakers and their families and include the president and vice president for good measure.

“That’s a non-starter for a lot of people for, you know, obvious reasons,” Hedtler-Gaudette noted.

Indeed, Trump has reacted furiously to any measure that would apply to him. That bill currently has 66 co-sponsors, all Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

A compromise approach with significant bipartisan support is called the Restore Trust in Congress Act. Unveiled to much fanfare last September, it would also institute a ban on trading and ownership of individual stocks, but only for lawmakers.

Although it has 128 co-sponsors — 98 Democrats and 30 Republicans — energy behind it has waned as the focus has shifted to more partisan bills in recent weeks, especially on the Republican side.

Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, as one example, was an original co-sponsor of the Restore Trust in Congress Act and even put forth a discharge petition to force a vote on the issue.

But that effort hasn’t seen a new signatory in more than six weeks, and Luna herself has shifted her focus to the Republican-favored bill. She posted after the president’s mention that it was “The ONLY issue from the entire SOTU that got both Democrat and Republican members out of their seats.”

Yet even with the divides, 215 lawmakers have signed on to at least one of the measures, according to a Yahoo Finance count.

Rep. Josh Riley, a Democrat representing upstate New York, is the only lawmaker to have signed on to all three approaches.

He previously said that he supports a full ban on trading but signed on to the GOP measure because that approach “is a hell of a lot better than doing nothing.”

Despite the lack of optimism for action, advocates for a ban told Yahoo Finance that Trump raising the issue could be a good sign.

In the speech, Trump singled out Nancy Pelosi, who has come under scrutiny for her husband’s trades, though trading has been a bipartisan problem.

Pelosi responded on CNN by telling Trump to “look at your own self.”

The bitter back-and-forth between these two leaders mirrors the divides over the stock trading issue.

Rep. Brian Steil, a Wisconsin Republican spearheading the Republican bill, has said his approach is the only realistic one and said following Trump’s speech that it “begins the process of restoring Americans’ trust in Congress.”

But on the other side, advocates for a full ban have said that a partial ban doesn’t address the underlying conflicts of interest that arise from simultaneously owning individual stocks and writing laws.

A series of good-government groups recently sent a letter to Congress that said the bill Trump endorsed is “a poor substitute for the bipartisan bill” noting it wouldn’t ban members of Congress from “making decisions that would affect the value of the stocks they hold.”

“I just sincerely hope that the public is not confused,” said Payne, whose group signed onto the recent letter.

Instead of stopping insider trading, he said, passing the partial ban would “allow it to flourish.”

Ben Werschkul is a Washington correspondent for Yahoo Finance.

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