Josh Hawley is brushing off President Donald Trump’s quip that he’s a “second-tier” senator. The criticism came after the Missouri Republican’s proposal to ban stock trading by members of Congress — and the president and vice president — won bipartisan approval to advance in a committee vote.

But Hawley’s legislation with the panel’s top Democrat, Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan, sailed out of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, after his support delivered a bipartisan vote over the objections of the other Republicans, who have majority control.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) proposed legislation that would restrict U.S. lawmakers from stock trading — and President Donald Trump was not happy about it. In a committee vote Wednesday, Hawley and Democrats passed the bill out of committee,