<div>and Video excerpt :</div><div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7387288n">http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7387288n</a></div></div><div><br></div>ps: Just noticed that poor richard ( on this list ? ) already republished such information on his blog<div>
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On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57323221/congress-insiders-above-the-law/" target="_blank">http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57323221/congress-insiders-above-the-law/</a><div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)">"Steve Kroft reports on how America's lawmakers can legally make tidy profits on information only they know, simply because they won't pass a law against themselves. "</span><div>
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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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