Brian Baird: “I think it was willful, intentional and part of a longer pattern that's quite troubling.”

If people in the congressional -- in Congress say that in some ways they are morally superior and they would never abuse something or that the laws should not apply to them, well, we've got a serious problem on our hand.

If you don't provide some mechanism for that to happen in times of crisis... you are essentially potentially abdicating the Article I branch responsibilities.

It's clearly the intent of this legislation is to make sure the public knows if members of Congress are trading on nonpublic information and if spouses are excluded from that, you could just pass information on to your spouse or kids.

I think it was willful, intentional, and part of a longer pattern that is quite troubling.