Laws against insider trading - making stock bets based on information the public doesn't have - do not apply to Congress. Studies have shown that stock portfolios on Capitol Hill outperform the market. Legislation that would ban insider trading by members and staffers has languished.And we wonder why Congress is so corrupt. Allowing Congress to make its own rules/be exempt from laws is simply ludicrous.
I badly want an amendment that reads Congress can exempt itself from no law it passes.