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Members of Congress trade in companies while making laws that affect those same firms
One-hundred-thirty members of Congress or their families have traded stocks collectively worth hundreds of millions of dollars in companies lobbying on bills that came before their committees, a practice that is permitted under current ethics rules, a Washington Post analysis has found. Full Story »
Posted by Manfred Ostrowski - via Ellen Miller, Memeorandum, Google News (U.S. Congress)
