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Kirsten Gillibrand: “One in three members of Congress are trading stock and one…”

Featuring: Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Senator Gillibrand on cross-party effort to end stock trading by lawmakers

Published | Video Starts at 01:10

These would be laws that we would have to follow on a bipartisan basis by many members of the House already. So I'm confident that if this bill is allowed to. So we know that One in three members of Congress are trading stock and one in seven are not properly disclosing the stocks 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. (01:10–01:21)

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Asserts that a significant portion of Congress members trade stocks and fail to disclose them properly.

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