Kirsten Gillibrand: “Members of Congress have a 17.5% higher return rate than the…”

“So we know that one in three members of Congress are trading stock and we know that one in seven are not properly disclosing the stocks that they're buying and selling. We also know that Members of Congress have a 17.5% higher return rate than the S&P 500 on their stock trades. and they're just not doing what they're supposed to be doing with disclosing it. So I decided, as many members of Congress have decided, and what Senator Moody has agreed on, is that we should ban it.” (01:22–01:31)

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