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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. We analyzed required public disclosure information about congresspeople’s stock holdings as compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics , a nonpartisan nonprofit, in combination with a sample of S&P 500 performance data from 2005 to 2010. Recently, for example, Reps.