rules? 200 whole dollars which brings us to the present day, congress trying to pass an extension of the stock act which would ban all members from trading individual public assets. there are still some details that have to be sorted out. here now with what his sources are saying, the co-founder of punch bowl news john bresnahan. talk us through your reporting. the original act had tougher regulations than what passed in 2012. >> yeah. it got watered down by congress. let's start at this point. insider trading is illegal. >> right. you can't get info and go trade on it. that's been illegal for a number of years. >> that is. we've had a member of congress convicted of insider trading. it wasn't based on something he heard in congress but outside. the issue here is there's growing momentum here and we reported today that speaker