Rahm Emanuel
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That's what I just said.
I'll give you a funny, not a funny story.
I guess to trade on inside information as well.
I get elected to Congress.
And I'm going to get on financial services.
I said, I'm going to set up a blind trust.
Chairman Oxley comes to see me.
He says, I don't want you to do this.
I said, well, I'm doing it because...
I'm a bare-knuckle politician.
Something's going to happen one day on a hearing that we're going to do in financial service.
I don't know what they're going to do.
So forget about it.
And I did it for them.
I did it also, Norm, I was going to tell you, did it when I was chief of staff, and I did it when I was mayor, 100%.
It seems like a no-brainer.
I don't know why it's not law.
I mean, I... Listen, they've been arguing.
I was a sponsor of a legislation that was related to exactly this, which is stocks traded in front of committees, in front of your committee.