Why members of Congress keep breaking financial laws over and over again – By Raw Story Staff (Raw Story) / Nov 29, 2023
Throughout 2023, federal lawmakers kept introducing a steady stream of bills designed to stop congressional stock trading.
At the same time, their colleagues continued breaking existing financial disclosure and conflicts-of-interest laws.
Nothing has come of those bills yet, but Raw Story has identified at least 37 members of Congress this year who violated federal law by not properly disclosing their personal finances as required by the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 and the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012.
“These laws matter in a large part for public trust and transparency,” said Raw Story investigative reporter Alexandria Jacobson on “The Julie Mason Show” on SiriusXM’s POTUS Politics channel Tuesday.
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