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George Whitesides: “We need to prohibit individual stock trades by members of…”

Featuring: George Whitesides, Democratic | U.S. House, California, District 27

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Published | Video Starts at 09:17

And that is something that I think we have to, you know, we have to strengthen those laws, to be honest. And We need to prohibit individual stock trades by members of Congress. There's a lot of other stuff we need to do. But to me, that was very surprising that that was still sort of, in some ways a thing that happened in Congress. (09:17–09:22)

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