It’s unusual when the Senate passes one bill in a single day, but today they’ve passed two. And both are an indication of the seriousness of legislating in the modern age. First, we have the JOBS Act, a bill that promises an impossible solution to an unrelated problem, which is a mask for its true [...]

The Senate leadership has given up on trying to pass their version of the STOCK Act, instead planning a vote on the House bill that cancels out restrictions on so-called “political intelligence,” among other tougher measures. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), in a Tuesday afternoon floor speech, announced that he would not compel [...]

Both the House and Senate have passed versions of the STOCK Act, which would ban insider trading in Congress and accomplish a number of other ethics reforms, with large majorities. The Senate version includes a measure on “political intelligence,” forcing the network of people who hang around Congress and find out tidbits of information that [...]

The House passed a watered-down version of the STOCK Act, the bill that would ban insider trading among members of Congress. Democrats supported it in order to get the bill to a conference committee, as it has already passed the Senate. So the final vote was 417-2. The two major changes to the bill made [...]