2.5

1. What is a financial - disclosure record?
a history of what type of investments Legislators make.

2. Why do we need those?

3. Which one of John Kerry's jobs in the Senate is mentioned? What does that mean he is responsible for?
Chairman of the heath subcommitee this means he is in charge of drug legislation

4. What was John Boehner doing during health care reform debates?
John Boehner was the house majority leader was investing “tens of thousands of dollars” in health-insurance-company stocks

5. What is insider trading?
insider trading of a corporations stocks by individuals with potenrial access to non-public information about the company

6. What do the House and Senate ethics rules say about congressmen's stock ownership?
member’s recusal from a vote affecting his or her stock portfolio “might be denying a voice” in the process

7. What suspicious activity did former Speaker Nancy Pelosi take part in?
Her husband invested between $1 million and $5 million on Visa when she was Speaker of the House

8. How will the Tea Party and Occupy movements likely respond to this book?
Tea Party and Occupy movements will respond to a kind of generalized outrage toward a system that seems geared to protect the interests of the few

9. What does the author (of the book) say is his main problem with politicians?

The fact that the political elite gets to play by a different set of rules than the rest of us

PARAGRAPHS COMING SOON!!!