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** Stock Options: A Deep Dive on Proposed Solutions To Stop Insider Trading in Congress ([link removed])
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Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Time: 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific

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As momentum builds to reform congressional stock trading, how can we ensure that current proposals don’t produce an ineffective law? To answer this question, CLC and a panel of legal experts will dive deep into the various proposals, discussing the pros, cons and loopholes.

Ten years after its initial passage, the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012 has done little to prevent the appearance of corruption. Consequently, most Americans currently support banning lawmakers from trading individual stocks altogether. In hindsight, this result was predictable based on the law’s disclosure requirements of stock trades without any trading restrictions. Transparency gave voters prompt visibility of actual and perceived conflicts of interests with each transaction, but voters witnessed a lack of accountability for any lawmakers suspected of misconduct. The STOCK Act proved ineffective, and any law reforming the STOCK Act will also be ineffective without careful consideration of the repercussions of the provisions.

On March 8 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10 a.m. Pacific, CLC will explore the various proposals to address the failures of the STOCK Act and ban congressional stock trades during "Stock Options: A Deep Dive on Proposed Solutions To Stop Insider Trading in Congress." We will explore whether these solutions will make the current problems with the law better or worse, examine various loopholes in these proposals and determine whether they are viable options.


We'll have a panel of ethics and legal experts, including:

* Ambassador Norman Eisen (ret.), senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution
* Lisa Gilbert, executive vice president at Public Citizen
* Donna Nagy, C. Ben Dutton professor of law at Indiana University Bloomington's Maurer School of Law
* Kedric Payne, vice president, general counsel and senior director, ethics at CLC

Deirdre Walsh, congressional editor at NPR, will moderate our panel, and CLC's founder and president, Trevor Potter, will offer a special introduction before we begin.

If you're curious about the STOCK Act, its limitations and what we can learn from it as efforts to curb congressional stock trading gain
momentum, you won't want to miss this event.

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