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Congress Keeps The Trading Desk Open: Senate Dems Sink Lawmaker Trading Ban 53-47
Congress Keeps The Trading Desk Open: Senate Dems Sink Lawmaker Trading Ban 53-47
A midterm messaging bill that was never going to become law just confirmed the only bipartisan consensus that matters: members of Congress still get to play the tape.
Senate Democrats just blocked cloture on a bill that would have stopped lawmakers from buying new publicly traded stocks. The vote was 53-47. Sixty were required. But guess what happened? Republicans dropped Voter ID into it so the Dems would nuke it.
The measure was H.R. 7008, the Stop Insider Trading Act....
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