Here's a visual aid for the next time someone wonders "just what's so bad about being a nice guy, anyway?"
Randall Munroe gets it.
Well, either that, or he really, really doesn't get it, but that's just a disclaimer born of too many times reading Chris Muir's "Should-be-ironic-but-is-really-quite-earnest" dialogue.
(Hey, Auguste, where do you get off hotlinking that cartoon, anyway?)
Filing showing Paul Pelosi's stock transaction.
There is no evidence that the Pelosis benefited materially from the trade.
However, this comes amid an intense debate over whether to pass new rules prohibiting members of Congress and their immediate families from buying and selling individual shares of stock — something that gives them unique opportunities to illegally trade off nonpublic business information, as they are in the position of regulating many publicly traded companies. Members are already required under the STOCK Act to disclose their trades publicly, but dozens of members in both parties ignore even this rule.
Pelosi, who was Speaker of the House last year, and whose family has millions in stock holdings, initially resisted calls to prohibit the practice, saying that members "should be able to participate" in the "free-market" economy. She later changed her position and backed a bill to ban congressional stock trading — but the bill died after running out of time for a vote, and some cynical observers have argued Pelosi deliberately ran out the clock to prevent action on it.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said on the campaign trail last year that he would pass a congressional stock trading ban himself if given a GOP majority. As of now, a bipartisan coalition is pressuring him to act, but there are few signs of concrete action.
