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Let them trade whatever they want — but publish their trades and delay execution for 48 hours.

Yeah, 24-48 hours advance notice would be a better option IMO, then anyone could follow along.

Hell, you could have funds based on congressional trades.

There already are multiple ETFs and other trackers that follow Congressional trades.

If you use Autopilot (no affiliation) it will even update your holdings every time the targeted people change their investments.

But that is still a month and a half delay, depending on how well reporting is. Likely well after what ever money making event occurs.

I think a company came out with ETFs for this already. Nancy Pelosi and the democrats have one called NANC and Ted Cruz and the republicans have KRUZ.

They don't have to report until months after the trade in practice (nothing happens when they do it late) and something like a month after in law.

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