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15. Members of Congress also have children, grandchildren, brothers, and sisters.

Fri Feb 18, 2022, 03:42 PM

Feb 2022

You are not getting them all to stop trading stocks. A better idea is that they have to make all their stock trades public knowledge.

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Congressional stock trading ban must include spouses, lawmakers say [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2022 OP

Must include entire families, no matter how thin the blood lines are AZLD4Candidate Feb 2022 #1

We have to start somewhere. The Mouth Feb 2022 #2

They do suck. . .but, AZLD4Candidate Feb 2022 #3

You can derail almost any worthwhile initiative The Mouth Feb 2022 #5

Definitely true! jimfields33 Feb 2022 #4

Maybe market-index The Mouth Feb 2022 #6

Definitely a great idea. jimfields33 Feb 2022 #13

Absolutely not Polybius Feb 2022 #14

If you're getting information from said POS Republican, yes AZLD4Candidate Feb 2022 #16

I never even met some of my cousins Polybius Feb 2022 #18

Judges spouses too! RainCaster Feb 2022 #7

Absolutely! Rebl2 Feb 2022 #10

I thought the same thing while reading this story Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2022 #11

I can't wait to see what loopholes there are in the final bill. n/t PoliticAverse Feb 2022 #8

Are the spouses of lawmaker's even using privileged information for profit. OneCrazyDiamond Feb 2022 #9

Yes, look at Moscow Mitch & Elaine Chao, or Clarence & Ginni Thomas. lagomorph777 Feb 2022 #12

K&R ck4829 Feb 2022 #19