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The past few weeks have seen a flurry of activity around the STOCK Act. The congressional insider trading ban, which languished in the House for nearly six years, passed the Senate with a 96-3 vote a mere three months after it had been introduced. Buoyed
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WASHINGTON - Legislation clarifying that members of Congress are subjected to federal anti-fraud laws covering stock trading and requiring them to publicly to disclose transactions on a timely basis overwhelmingly cleared the House on Thursday. House Rep
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The town is all about people saying — what do you know that I don't know? This is the currency of Washington D.C. And it's that kind of informational currency that translates into real currency ... It's a pretty great system. You feel like an idiot to not take advantage of it.
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In his criticism of former Congressman Brian Baird's commentary, the Feb. 2 letter writer ("Baird off-base on support for Israel") notes that he is "a proud Jew and a supporter of Israel with whatever flaws it may have." I am a supporter of both Israel a
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The week started off propitiously for the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act. In a 93-2 cloture vote, the U.S. Senate voted to take up a law to ban insider trading in Congress. The 93 votes in favor of bringing the STOCK Act to the floor told us
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As I detailed in my article Insider Trading Inside the Beltway, Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and former Rep. Brian Baird for years fought an honorable but lonely uphill battle to get people to pay attention to the problem of Congressional insider trading
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Brian Baird deserves a lot of credit for highlighting this needed reform -- both as a Member of Congress, and recently as a regular citizen ... There's no place for insider trading in this country – not on Wall Street, and most certainly not in Congress. We've all seen the fallout when folks in privileg...
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Brian Baird must be chortling. Before retiring in January 2011 as a member of Congress, one of Baird’s continuing crusades — officially banning insider trading by members of Congress — drew scant attention from his colleagues. Now, it’s all the rage insi
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In his State of the Union address last week, President Barack Obama took a moment to lament the perception of the Capitol as an ineffectual place. He called for a renewed effort from elected officials to restore the public trust. "Send me a bill that ban
About Brian Baird
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Brian Norton Baird (born March 7, 1956) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Washington. Full Article
