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Dems Set To Push Bill To Ban Congress From Trading Stock
• Zero Hedge - Tyler DurdenFinally, house Democrats are going to be addressing the ugly black eye of their leadership
Apparently, the optics aren't that great. Go figure.
And so House Democrats are now set to announce a proposal "to ban lawmakers, their spouses and senior staff from trading stocks", Punchbowl news wrote this week.
"The framework, which the House Democratic leadership will release in early August, would force members of Congress, their spouses and senior staff to choose between putting their assets in a qualified blind trust or completely divesting their investment portfolios," the report says.