President Barack Obama made it sound easy in his State of the Union address: Pass the STOCK Act “tomorrow” so he could sign it into law.
But it’s proving to be anything but easy.
But it’s proving to be anything but easy.
Democrats and Republicans have proposed an avalanche of populist-tinged amendments and poison pills certain to become fodder for 30-second attack ads. On top of that, there appear to be growing reservations among senators over the potentially sweeping ramifications of the bill, a sign that the body was ill-prepared for the full-fledged debate over ethics and senatorial conduct that it now finds itself in.
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