The power of public office carries with it the perennial desire to use the power for financial gain. If financial disclosure reports don’t paint an adequate—and importantly, accurate—picture of a government official’s financial interests, the public can’t know if those officials are acting impartially.
— Campaign Legal Center, 10/26/18

Like most databases, you only get out of them what was input.

For example, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) released their transactions for 2019 0r 2020.

Given the noise, it’s also telling who’s blown off the public’s right to know in 2019 and 2020 and declined to file a transaction report….

New Hampshire Senator Bernie Sanders (I)

New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D)

New York Senator Charles Schumer (D)

California Representative Kevin McCarthy (R)

North Carolina Senator Richard Burr (R)

Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler (R)

California Representative Maxine Waters (D)

California Senator Dianne Feinstein (D)

Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar (D)

Washington Senator Patty Murray (D)

Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe (R)

Texas Representative Frederica Wilson (D)

Texas Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee (D)

Illinois Representative Rashida Tlaib (D)

New York Representative Jerrold Nadler (D)

Virginia Representative Don Beyer (D)

Ohio Representative Jim Jordan (R)

Missouri Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D)

South Carolina Representative James Clyburn (D)

Massachusetts Representative Ayanna Pressley (D)

Virginia Senator Mark Warner (D)

North Carolina Senator Mark Meadows (R)

California Representative Barbara Lee (D)

Florida Representative Alcee Hastings (D)

Maryland Senator Steny Hoyer (D)

Illinois Representative Bobby Rush (D)

Utah Senator Mitt Romney (R)

New Hampshire Senator Susan Collins (R)

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham (R)

New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D)

Florida Representative Donna Shalala (D)

New Hampshire Senator Elizabeth Warren (D)

Virginia Senator Tim Kaine (D)

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker (D)

California Senator Kamala Harris (D)

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar (D)

Maybe some were too busy impeaching President Trump, but you get the idea and see the pattern.

As far as the pundit/media catcalls for Republican senators to resign, let’s be consistent (although we know that won’t happen) and acknowledge this as a bipartisan issue come back to bite….

President Obama quietly signed S. 716, which repealed a requirement of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (the bipartisan bill aimed at halting insider trading by members of Congress) requiring roughly 28,000 senior government officials to post their financial information online. Both chambers of Congress quickly — and near silently — approved the repeal legislation at the end of last week by unanimous consent, just before heading home to their districts.
— The Hill, 4/15/13

Let’s see EVERY Capitol Hill politician’s books. Seeing how well Democrats project, it’s a safe bet that outing a few Republicans is to mask the possible unethical activities of a whole lot more Democrats who blew off their opportunity to be open with the American people.

Do you think it was out of potential disappointment for not being able to represent their constituents, or do you think it was something a little more personal?

Some of these representatives make Hillary “cattle futures” Clinton look like the rank amateur she was, but it sure answers the questions of why our elected representatives (and their staffs) kick and claw to hold onto their seats. CBS’ 60 Minutes implied more Republicans were way more involved in this activity which experience tells us “insider trading” may have been more a Democrat caper than the partisan, protectionist media would let on.

After all, can’t have any Democrats bashing millionaires when many of them are and they really didn’t have to work very hard to earn those millions.

UPDATE:

Like John McCain, Senator Bob Corker (R) believed he could stay on the right side of the media opposing a Republican president. Also, like McCain, Corker became a target of scrutiny once he outlived his usefulness.

Tennessee Senator Bob Corker tested the limits of the moonlighting possibilities in the legislative branch, essentially becoming a full-time day-trader who did a little Senator-ing in his spare time. By 2014, when Corker sat on the Senate Banking Committee, a position that gave him regular access to prime information about the future direction of the markets, the Tennessee Senator still had his foot on the gas. He made 930 stock trades that year.

One financial analyst I know said Corker’s trading patterns looked more like the work of “an office of multiple analysts all grinding at least 60 hours a week” than like the work of “one guy moonlighting as a Senator.”

In the first nine months of 2007, Corker made an incredible 1,200 trades, over four per day, including 332 over a two-day period. Corker’s net worth has risen by millions since before being elected, to the point of being the fourth wealthiest man in the upper chamber, worth $69 million as of 2015.
— Rolling Stone, 12/22/18

Whoever tells you a politician on Capitol Hill is capable of policing his or herself must be a politician.