Congress dismantles insider trading law while everyone is distracted

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**Grundz**

http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/04/12/epic-failure-by-the-senate-on-transparency-provisions-in-stock-act/

**daedalus**

Well, they fixed the issues with Wall Street, obviously. As such, there is no longer any need for this bill to be in existence. Go back to your lives and pay no further heed.

(As people can never tell, I am not being serious)

**Dreadclaw69**

Well, seems that Congress took a lesson from the Jo Moore playbook when choosing which day to bury bad news - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Moore

At 2:55pm BST (9:55am EDT) on 11 September 2001, after both World Trade Center towers had been hit in terrorist attacks, but before either tower had collapsed, Moore sent an email to the press office of her department which read:
It's now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury. Councillors' expenses?[1]
The Department did indeed announce on the following day two minor changes to the system of Councillors Allowances. Nearly a month later, Moore's email was leaked to the press where it provoked opprobrium around the cynical nature of spin. Moore ultimately made a personal appearance before the cameras to apologise for what she had written.

**daedalus**

I was thinking along these lines:

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

-Rahm Emanuel

**whembly**

That's what I'm trying to tell you pups...

They're ALL crooks!