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"Among the revelations in Kroft's report:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); ">
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* Members of Congress have bought stock in companies while laws that could affect those companies were being debated in the House or Senate."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); ">
"[Insider trading laws] apply to corporate executives, to Americans...If you are a member of Congress, those laws are deemed not to apply," he tells Kroft. "It's really the way the rules have been defined...[lawmakers]have conveniently written them in such a way as they don't apply to themselves," says Schweizer.</p>
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Efforts to make such insider trading off limits to Washington's lawmakers have never been able to get traction."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); ">
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