Members of congress and potential conflicts of interest in what could be next for members of congress, i want to ask you today what are some of the important rules for like that . It is effectively the rules of the road that pass for congress and decade ago. This was in response to span rules that had taken place in the medium rules before not nested in the immediate the stock act tackled three times, it tackled concepts of interest where investors would be public decisions that they are making on behalf of the body politic. Another one whence Insider Trading where lawmakers would in some cases have used information that they had gleaned by virtue of being a member of congress i being an elective an elected official and then though the third prong of that was transparency giving the public more knowledge, and more details more quickly so that we could see what lawmakers were doing. It was effectively adding another layer of security to the process so that voters had the information to
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