60 minutes reported on Sunday that members of Congress can
legally trade stock based on non-public information, and provided examples of
congressmen buying healthcare stocks during the healthcare debate, a
congressman, Spencer Bachus, buying put options in 2008 after attending an
emergency meeting with Bernanke and Paulson, and Nancy Pelosi getting an
allotment of Visa IPO shares while a bill to restrict credit card issuers was
being debated
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