Indeed. In fact, the insider trading was legislated against a couple of years back, but the staffers raised such hell (according to reports) that it was quietly slipped into other legislation and enacted again.
Scoundrels.
The legislation was passed but it was watered down so that while sitting legislators and staffs couldn’t use the information, their family members could use it in their own names. Eric Cantor helped push that weasily crafted amendment to that legislation and it was just one of the many reasons why we voters in the 7th put him out of office!