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BumRushDaShow

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2. Wasn't this the subject of newly enacted but botched (now supposedly fixed) law
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 08:26 AM
Aug 2012

prohibiting members of Congress from benefiting from their insider knowledge for financial purposes (STOCK Act)?

http://articles.cnn.com/2012-08-02/politics/politics_stock-act-loophole_1_stock-act-congressional-knowledge-act-loophole

The Act - http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-112publ105/html/PLAW-112publ105.htm
The loophole closure - http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r112:H02AU2-0031:/

Looks like he'll slide under the wire for his transgressions.

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