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The Growing Conflict-of-Interest Problem in the U.S. Congress

Harvard Business

These financial ties to firms can be problematic. For example, the financial institutions in which key committee members owned stock received favorable bailouts in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act , in 2008. In addition, as of 2014 over half of lawmakers were millionaires. Recently, for example, Reps.