Articles tagged: congress

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   COVID-19 story recipe: How to see what stocks members of Congress are dumping (or buying)

   By Derek Willis

   Posted on April 17, 2020

   ProPublica used the Senate’s financial disclosures to find that not long after Sen. Richard Burr offered a positive assessment in public of the country’s ability to handle the coronavirus, he sold hundreds of thousands of (and potentially up to $1.7 million) dollars in stocks, a highly unusual series of trades for him. Here’s how you can reproduce the story for your community.