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Insider trading: just one more thing Congress can get away with

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A loophole "still exists which allows members of Congress and high-powered executive branch appointees to exploit 'insider' knowledge of the financial industry in order to turn personal profit."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, August 6th, 2009