New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley are introducing bipartisan legislation that would prevent members of the executive and legislative branches — as well as their spouses and children — from trading individual company stocks.

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Oh, finally! I’m certain it’s going to fall completely on its face, but at least they’re finally acknowledging that the issue exists.

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I’ll be mildly curious to see how it will fail to pass.

That it will fail to pass is guaranteed.

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Can’t fail if it doesn’t hit the floor. It will get caught in limbo. This will be the last we hear of this

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Great, hope it goes through. But why isn’t the judicial branch included?

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I assume if the judicial branch were included it would be found “unconstitutional”. Maybe this has a shot of getting through the supreme court and then we can go from there.

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I agree, but if we can clean up some of the blatant corruption in Congress then maybe the corruption in the SC and elsewhere can also be addressed.

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They’re not going to vote against their own interests.

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Hawley doing something not awful? Has hell frozen over?

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He knows the bill is dead in the water. No way he’d support something sensible that had a chance of ever seeing bidens desk

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