Will this make it different? What are your hopes for this? This new bill, this new act. The 2012 Stock act made progress, but I think we have an opportunity today to end members even having the ability to profit off of insider information. We have a markup coming in just less than an hour from now, and I'm confident that we're going to move this through committee. (00:08–00:18)
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