Congress: Trading stock on inside information?

[lucy]

Did he ask for Paul's help to pay his medical bills before he died?

[lucy]

Okay, back to the subject...

[lucy]

Maybe this will answer a few questions....

11-16-11 Ron Paul Interview - Fox News

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Lieberman, Brown Launch Probe Into Congressional Insider Trading

Thursday, 17 Nov 2011 05:17 PM

By Martin Gould
 
Members of Congress repeatedly blocked moves to enforce insider trading laws on themselves because they don’t want to be bothered by cumbersome rules, says retired House member Brian Baird, whose unsung efforts to stop the trading are finally getting respect.

“What was troubling to me was not that they thought it wasn’t wrong, but they thought it was too inconvenient,” Baird told Newsmax in an exclusive interview. Baird welcomed moves finally to look at the issue that he pushed throughout his six terms in Congress, which ended with his retirement in 2010.

“Not only is this good policy, it’s good politics,” said Baird from his home in Edmonds, Wash. “People out there think the rules should apply to Congress too. They want it to be fair and just and consistent.”

Baird’s STOCK (Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge) Act failed to gain traction on Capitol Hill despite four attempts to introduce it. He never got more than six colleagues to sign on as co-sponsors and the bill went nowhere.

But now, leading Republicans like Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut Independent, are throwing their weight behind the anti-insider trading fervor.

Brown filed a bill to prohibit insider trading in Congress, and a key Senate committee has agreed to hold a public hearing on the measure.

The Massachusetts Republican’s bill would bar members or employees of Congress and the executive branch from using nonpublic information obtained through their public service for the purpose of investing for personal financial gain.

Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, announced Wednesday that the committee would hold a hearing to examine how insider trading laws apply to Congress.

Read more on Newsmax.com:http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/pelosi-boehner-insider-trading/2011/11/17/id/418450?s=al&promo_code=D8A9-1 

[Pepsi]

His campaign manager didn't pull himself up by his own bootstraps........so he died...

I guess since he must have supported Ron Paul's libertarian view of health insurance (don't have it, can't afford it, then die) he deserved this in a way.  Feel sorry for his mom though.

[Pepsi]

But now, leading Republicans like Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut Independent, are throwing their weight behind the anti-insider trading fervor.

Brown filed a bill to prohibit insider trading in Congress, and a key Senate committee has agreed to hold a public hearing on the measure.

I must say I'm shocked if insider trading rules didnt apply to congress, and thankful they are putting rules in to prevent it!

[JC3.0]

I guess since he must have supported Ron Paul's libertarian view of health insurance (don't have it, can't afford it, then die) he deserved this in a way.  Feel sorry for his mom though.

I probably should have placed <sarcasm> tags in that post. Perhaps as campaign manager he should have had medical care as part of his benefits package? In either case, based on Ron Paul's view on medical coverage, it makes you wonder if he shed a tear......

[johnhp]

it makes you wonder if he shed a tear......

He got Boehner to do it for him....

[Pepsi]

I probably should have placed <sarcasm> tags in that post. Perhaps as campaign manager he should have had medical care as part of his benefits package? In either case, based on Ron Paul's view on medical coverage, it makes you wonder if he shed a tear......

No, call me a hard ass but I truly have no sympathy for people who support policies or politicians which promote policies which harm segments of the population when they find themselves in that segment and are harmed by same.   I say this guy learned a valuable lesson.   

[ivanm]

I must say I'm shocked if insider trading rules didnt apply to congress, and thankful they are putting rules in to prevent it!

The rub with Obamacare is how it is to be funded.  If they had expanded Medicare and Medicaid to include younger people it might have been much more acceptable to most people.  Medicare works just like a common private sector policy when it comes to part B and part D.  Part A is financed by Congressional tax revenues but people have learned to accept that for years now.  The difference that the system does not put the screws to the employers, the hands that feed people

Why can't a liberal understand what is equitable and what is a rip off?  This mob rule by government fiat doesn't cut it and it is not necessary to go that route.
Medicare premiums for most people are lower  than private sector premiums and the coverage is comparable.  Medicaid costs are borne by the people as a whole, which is how it should be done.

This bullshit that Paul doesn't care about sick people or that Republicans don't care is  driven by the mob mentality of mental midgets who just want to  blow off to hear their assholes bang open and shut.

This is just surreal. Parents send their idiots to school, buy them pencils and what do they do, they eat the damned erasers.

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Liberals always want their gub'ment to take care of them from crib to grave......handling every miniscule of personal life.....why aren't people self dependent any more? ........... when did we change from "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You....But Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" ? (quote JFK).....JFK would be embarrassed to see what his political party has morphed into.....a bunch of whiny, groveling dependents of the state!........  

[IM2]

The rub with Obamacare is how it is to be funded.  If they had expanded Medicare and Medicaid to include younger people it might have been much more acceptable to most people.  Medicare works just like a common private sector policy when it comes to part B and part D.  Part A is financed by Congressional tax revenues but people have learned to accept that for years now.  The difference that the system does not put the screws to the employers, the hands that feed people

Why can't a liberal understand what is equitable and what is a rip off?  This mob rule by government fiat doesn't cut it and it is not necessary to go that route. Medicare premiums for most people are lower  than private sector premiums and the coverage is comparable.  Medicaid costs are borne by the people as a whole, which is how it should be done.

This bullshit that Paul doesn't care about sick people or that Republicans don't care is  driven by the mob mentality of mental midgets who just want to  blow off to hear their assholes bang open and shut.

This is just surreal. Parents send their idiots to school, buy them pencils and what do they do, they eat the damned erasers.

Bullshit. Medicare premiums are taken out of your social security check.

Paul doesn't care. Nor do republicans.

Again you stupid fucks ruined the economy, why don't you shut the fuck up?

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Bullshit. Medicare premiums are taken out of your social security check.

Paul doesn't care. Nor do republicans.

Again you stupid fucks ruined the economy, why don't you shut the fuck up?

pointless garble......belying claptrap.......