{"id":10150,"date":"2011-11-16T22:02:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T03:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=10150"},"modified":"2011-11-16T22:02:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T03:02:14","slug":"received-in-my-e-mail-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=10150","title":{"rendered":"Received In My E-mail Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">November 16, 2011<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>LIEBERMAN, COLLINS TO HOLD HEARING<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong>ON INSIDER TRADING LAWS AND CONGRESS<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>60 Minutes Story Sparks Examination<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, announced Wednesday they would hold a hearing to examine how insider trading laws apply to Congress.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0The hearing, requested by Committee Member Scott Brown, R-Mass., and sparked by a 60 Minutes report, is intended to clarify the laws and rules that govern members of Congress who may profit personally from non-public information they learn in the course of their work.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cInsider trading by members of Congress \u2013 if it occurs &#8212; is a serious breach of the public trust,\u201d said <strong>Lieberman<\/strong>. \u201cNo one in Congress should be enriching themselves based on information to which the general public has no access. Our hearing will set the record straight about how existing laws and ethics rules apply to Congress and whether they are sufficient to prevent unethical market trading.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<strong>Collins<\/strong> said: \u201cElected office is a place for public service, not personal gain. We have a duty to examine and address practices that can create the appearance of wrongdoing or undermine the public\u2019s confidence in decisions made by Congress.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate Senator Scott Brown\u2019s leadership on this important issue. We need to assure the American people that the decisions we make are decisions of integrity, in which their interests are put first.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0Senator Brown has introduced legislation intended to prevent members of Congress from profiting on information to which only they are privy. That bill has been referred to HSGAC. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., will introduce similar legislation soon. House members have introduced similar bills.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=f55577cb-dc7e-43b7-b7ed-7b93ffd7ab92\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 16, 2011 LIEBERMAN, COLLINS TO HOLD HEARING \u00a0ON INSIDER TRADING LAWS AND CONGRESS 60 Minutes Story Sparks Examination WASHINGTON \u2013 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, announced Wednesday they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=10150\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1257,735,1234,772,1255,582,1256,44],"class_list":["post-10150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-60-minutes","tag-congress","tag-insider-trading","tag-joe-lieberman","tag-kirsten-gillibrand","tag-scott-brown","tag-susan-collins","tag-united-states-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10151,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150\/revisions\/10151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}