Stock Trades Reported by Nearly a Fifth of Congress Show Possible Conflicts

By artappraiser on Tue, 09/13/2022 - 1:09pm |

A New York Times analysis found that 97 lawmakers or their family members bought or sold financial assets over a three-year span in industries that could be affected by their legislative committee work.https://t.co/E5MMVQDvxB
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) September 13, 2022

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/13/us/politics/congress-stock-trading-investigation.html

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First, of those 182 politicians, 90+ sat on committees that directly oversaw the companies they traded

49 were Democrats
44 were Republicans

Which totals 18% of Congress
— Chris Josephs (@Chrisjjosephs) September 15, 2022