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WASHINGTON —
The Senate on Thursday sent the White House a bill to explicitly ban members of Congress, the president and thousands of other federal workers from profiting from nonpublic information learned on the job.
While the bill lets the public see more of government officials’ financial dealings, and view them online more frequently, it abandons an earlier proposal to require public reports from people who gather information from Congress — and sell it, mainly to investors.
President Barack Obama has said he would sign the STOCK Act, which stands for Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge.
