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This is performative and will go to the Senate and die or be torn to pieces and made useless.
Yeah, tbh this is for sure getting filibustered.
Imagine tho if it got shoved into budget reconciliation lol, that would be magical.
This is great, and hopefully it moves forward, but also whatever loophole they left should be closed up as well in a follow-up bill.
No fucking way Trump signs it if it even makes it to his desk
I think it depends. He might think it a weapon he can use against The Democrats, assuming it doesn't target the executive branch at all.
this is like the twelfth time they've "banned insider trading by lawmakers," why is it going to be anymore effective this time?
the fact that this has a Republican cosponsor is more than enough reason to scrap the whole thing and start over
Oh damn, hopefully pelosi doesn’t see this, she might have a stroke.
Oh no, then we might have to have a special election to replace 85-year-old, out-of-touch millionaire Nancy Pelosi, and in the meantime the Democrats will be short a seat while already in the minority and refusing/unable to curb all this fascism. What a tragedy.
Are you guys related?
You think that everybody whose title is a Mr followed by anything means they're related? I have shocking news: every man you've ever met is not necessarily related to one another. Your teachers growing up were not all family.
bruv, he was merely making a joke lol
Samesies
Given that Jimmy Carter had to give up a peanut farm, why is this allowed in the first place? Any college freshman in a beginner ethics class would flag this as a “conflict of interest “ and yet here we are. Oh gees, I forgot, it’s about greed. Silly me.
And my wife wonders why I despise the wealthy elite…
Laws are worse than useless without enforcement. Stock traders break laws every single day, it's part of doing business, as are the tiny fines a few of them are charged when they are called out for breaking laws.
This is complete bullshit. They'll continue to trade, just illegally, now, knowing nothing will happen even in the rare situation where the FTC actually does anything.
Maybe let them trade stocks, but they have to publicly report all trades before or right when they're made
Is it "comprehensive" enough to ban them from trading crypto too?