Congress: Not the Place for Insider Trading
The fact that lawmakers like Sen. Joe Lieberman need to go out of their way to draft specific legislation to stipulate that members of Congress shouldn't be engaging in insider trading with information they may come across by virtue of their vaunted positions is kind of revealing, isn't it?The fact that lawmakers like Sen. Joe Lieberman need to go out of their way to draft specific legislation to stipulate that members of Congress shouldn’t be engaging in insider trading with information they may come across by virtue of their vaunted positions is kind of revealing, isn’t it?
Here’s Lieberman and fellow Sen. Scott Brown making their case in an AP clip posted on Tuesday. Now what varieties of congressional corruption might they tackle next? –KA
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