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Jake Johnson

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Lawmakers keep violating the stock act - Caught on Camera

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images

A running tally updated Tuesday shows that more than 60 members of Congress have recently violated a federal law aimed at preventing insider trading, a finding that comes as proposals to bar federal lawmakers from trading stocks languish in the House and Senate.

According to Insider's "Conflicted Congress" project, 63 sitting members of Congress—31 Democrats and 32 Republicans—have "failed to properly report their financial trades as mandated by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012, also known as the STOCK Act."

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