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[credit: Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune]
Wackydoodle sez: She'll show y'all a real good time! |
Steve Kroft of the venerable
60 Minutes news program
reported about the use of insider information by Congressmen to trade stocks. A pending bill in the House outlawing the practice (already considered unethical under House rules) only had nine cosponsors before the airing of the program. Afterwards, politically vulnerable members scrambled to sign on bringing the number to 92. The STOCK bill (it is absurd how fond Washington politicians are of acronyms with double meanings) was first introduced in 2006 and reintroduced every Congress since then, but never got out of committee.
