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Elizabeth Warren: “Of Congress, whether they're on the Banking Committee or…”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

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Warren Pushes Stock Trading Ban for Congress, Says Lawmakers Shouldn't Buy, Sell, or Hold Shares

Published | Video Starts at 00:18

And then she told me afterwards, well, we donate the proceeds to charity. And so that's. What do you think about members of the Banking Committee you sit on trading individual stocks. Of Congress, whether they're on the Banking Committee or not, whether a Republican or a Democrat, whether they sit in the House or the Senate, should be trading in stocks. They shouldn't buy them, they shouldn't sell them, they shouldn't hold them. I've got a bill to do that. We ought to be able to pass that in a nanosecond. And yet there are people still out there trading. (00:18–00:32)

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Asserts that members of Congress should not trade, buy, sell, or hold stocks.

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