All posts tagged "Roger Williams"

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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A Republican congressman was as much as five years late reporting his spouse’s stock trades, violating a federal financial disclosure law, according to a Raw Story review of congressional financial records.

Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) failed to properly report 16 stock trades and one bond transaction from two of his wife’s brokerage accounts, some going back as far as February 2019.

Each stock trade was in the $1,001 to $15,000 range involving a variety of companies such as tech conglomerate Alphabet, artificial intelligence company NVIDIA, pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company and media and entertainment conglomerate Walt Disney and Company. ...

I finished Sarah Vowell's new book The Wordy Shipmates nearly a week ago, but I haven't gotten around to reviewing it, due to the craziness of the past week. The topic seems sort of weird at first blush---it's a history of the Puritans that first settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but Vowell makes her case for why it's relevant upfront. Vowell argues that the American heritage from our Puritans is not necessarily our work ethic or sexual repression (in fact, she argues that the Puritan obsession with sex is something later people read into their culture---not that they weren't patriarchal and repressed, but that they didn't have the same obsession with it that our current fundies do), but that it's the belief in inherent moral superiority, that we are god's new chosen people. Her explanation of how the Puritans differ from today's fundies alone makes the book worth reading, and will make you like the Puritans more, because for all that they were practically medieval, at least they strove to be better people, whereas today's fundies wallow in the art of backsliding anti-intellectualism.