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stock trading · Bresnahan · Blackburn · French Hill · Fetterman · Gottheimer · corruption · Issue 003

Rob Bresnahan introduced a bill to ban congressional stock trading. Nine days later he sold $130,000 in Medicaid stocks. Three politicians. Three industries. One blueprint. Every dollar sourced.

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