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131 Members Of Congress Now Co-Sponsor House Bill To Ban Insider Trading [Updated] | ThinkProgress reported two weeks ago that only five Members of Congress had co-sponsored legislation to stop a special form of insider trading that federal legislators partake in — a problem highlighted by an explosive 60 Minutes report. Now, 131 legislators in the House of Representatives have sponsored such legislation, an almost twenty-fold increase in just two weeks.
Update
The original version of this post said 99 Members had co-sponsored the legislation, the number is actually 131.
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