Insider trading will now be much easier for our law makers......Our government at it's best

news.firedoglake.com...

QUOTE: President Obama quietly signed legislation Monday that rolled back a provision of the STOCK Act that required high-ranking federal employees to disclose their financial information online.

The White House announced Monday that the president had signed S. 716, which repealed a requirement of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act requiring the disclosure, which had previously been delayed several times by Congress. END QUOTE:

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.

I have not read the BILL that was signed into law but I do remember the questions raised last year about certain members who due to apparent insider trading deals made some serious money. Pelosi comes to mind...

This does not (and did not) impact elected officials at all. What was repealed was a requirement that GS level employees make their annual financial disclosure reports available to the public. I still have to complete a financial disclosure report every year, and this repeal does not change that. It just removes the requirement that the report be made public.