Members of the US Congress are not exempt from the laws that ban insider trading, but as they generally do not have a confidential relationship with the source .\r
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Today, the Committee on Homeland Security and .\r
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Insider trading is the trading of a public companys stock or other securities (such as bonds or stock options) by individuals with access to non-public information .\r
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Lobbying in the United States describes paid activity in which special interests hire well-connected professional advocates, often lawyers, to argue for specific .