Members of Congress can legally trade stock based on non-public information from Capitol Hill.
As Lizzie O’Leary points out, much of this report owes its information from the work done by Brody Mullins at the Wall Street Journal:It is astounding to know this is legal.
And what incentive do they have to make this behavior illegal? Amazing. We need to get money out of politics - completely.
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