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Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), who serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, tried to steer a interview with CNN's Boris Sanchez away from the big story of the day — whether there should be consequences for the war plan chat about an airstrike on Yemen with top defense officials that inadvertently included a journalist.

But Sanchez wasn't having it.

The anchor had asked why senior officials like Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and CIA Director John Ratcliffe should have discussed the details of a sensitive bombing operation outside of classified government computer systems. ...

At least 62 members of 118th Congress have violated a federal insider trading and conflicts-of-interest law, a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial disclosures reveals.

Most of these violations involve failures to properly disclose stock trades as required by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012. Some involve not abiding by the transparency and personal financial disclosure requirements first outlined in the STOCK Act's post-Watergate predecessor, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

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Since Jan. 1, at least 37 members of Congress have violated a federal insider trading and conflicts-of-interest law, a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial disclosures reveals.

Most of these violations involve failures to properly disclose stock trades as required by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012. Some involve not abiding by the transparency and personal financial disclosure requirements first outlined in the STOCK Act's post-Watergate predecessor, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

The most significant violator clocked in as much as six-and-a-half years late when reporting up to $8.5 million in stock transactions — Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA). Another lawmaker was just a couple days late but still logged up to $165,000 in late stock disclosures — Rep. John Curtis (R-UT). Between them are numerous other Republicans and Democrats alike who have consistently failed to abide by the STOCK Act....

A New Jersey freshman congressman has violated a decade-old financial disclosure and conflicts-of-interest law — the same one he slammed his opponent for breaking.

Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act when, on Sept. 18, he was as much as four months late disclosing six personal stock transactions, according to a federal financial document reviewed by Raw Story.

Taken together, the transactions are worth up to $90,000....

Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, the Florida congresswoman who blasted her Democratic predecessor for violating a federal conflicts-of-interest and financial disclosure law, appears to have broken the same law herself.

Again.

Salazar, a Republican, was late in disclosing her spouse’s $1,001 to $15,000 sale of stock in Florida renewable energy company, NextEra Energy Partners — an apparent violation of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, according to a Raw Story review of federal financial disclosures. ...