For four years, we have tried to convince this chamber to ban members of Congress from trading stocks. Why? Because members of Congress should be serving their communities, their constituents and their country, not their stock portfolios. In that four year span, 48 months, 1400 days, how many millions of dollars have members of Congress and this body made from trading stocks? It's unconscionable. It's a practice that should have ended years ago. And we have continued to beat that drum month after month, week after week, day after day. (01:39–01:56)
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Implies that members of Congress have made millions of dollars from stock trading over four years.
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