Two Texas Republicans and a Pennsylvania Democrat have violated a federal conflicts-of-interest law.
Two congressmen from Texas and one from Pennsylvania have joined more than four-dozen of their Capitol Hill colleagues in violating a federal law designed to combat financial conflicts-of-interest, according to an Insider analysis of congressional financial disclosure documents.
The newest violators of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act's disclosure provisions include Texas Republicans Pat Fallon and Michael Burgess, as well as Pennsylvania Democrat Dwight Evans.
The new violations come as a growing number of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle — from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat — have responded to Insider's "Conflicted Congress" reporting project by recommending increased restrictions on how members of Congress may invest their own money.
"Conflicted Congress" revealed the myriad ways members of the US House and Senate have eviscerated their own financial ethics standards, avoided consequences, and blinded Americans to the many moments when lawmakers' personal finances clash with their public duties.
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