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Brian Fitzpatrick: “If you have access to inside information by virtue of your…”

Featuring: Brian Fitzpatrick, Republican | U.S. House Pennsylvania, 1st Congressional District

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Bipartisan duo look to 'tackle corruption' with bill banning insider trading by government officials

Published | Video Starts at 03:03

With regard to Congress itself, there was then a move to add in the executive branch and Maggie, which I think is a brilliant idea, and I second it is. Why not include all three branches of government? Because the premise is If you have access to inside information by virtue of your government position, you should be forbidden and precluded from trading on any stock market, including prediction markets. Now, it's going to have to evolve. We're going to have to be flexible because there's all these different types of currencies and all these different markets. (03:03–03:15)

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Asserts that government officials with access to inside information should be banned from trading stocks and prediction markets.

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