One thing you can do as a member is study pending legislation and regulatory changes, call up your broker and instruct him to trade on that nonpublic information. Do this as often as you want; you will suffer no penalty. There is no limit to how much money you can earn on insider trading in the House or Senate. Lawmakers and their staffers are specifically exempted.
As you might expect, those who work in the hallowed halls are not shy about availing themselves of the opportunity. A Wall Street Journal analysis published more than six months ago that has thus far provoked no particular sense of shame on Capitol Hill found that at least 72 Congressional aides in both parties had recently traded shares of companies that their bosses helped regulate. In 2009, while Senate Banking Committee member Mike Crapo, a Republican from Idaho, was involved in discussing “stress tests” on banks such as Bank of America, his aide Karen Brown traded the company’s stock on several occasions in the weeks before May 7, 2009 — when BofA surged thanks to a press release on its stress-test result, assuring Ms. Brown a nifty profit.
Well, There’s Your Problem Right There … Insider Trading Rules Don’t Apply To CongressJune 3, 2011
WashingtonsBlog
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/well-theres-your-problem-right-there-insider-trading-rules-don%e2%80%99t-apply-to-congress.html"A few lawmakers proposed a bill that would prevent members and employees of Congress from trading securities based on nonpublic information they obtain. The legislation has languished since 2006."
OCTOBER 11, 2010
Congressional Staffers Gain From Trading in Stocks
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703431604575522434188603198.html
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