At least 10 senators reported stock purchases or sales last year involving companies in industries overseen by the committees they serve on. These transactions worry government watchdog groups, as a bipartisan effort to ban the practice has faltered on Capitol Hill.
Most of those senators who invested in stocks that overlap with their committee assignments over the last year have comprehensive financial portfolios, not all of which raise potential conflict-of-interest issues, according to a database of congressional financial filings compiled by Capitol Trades and reviewed by CNN. But the more than a dozen trades from this small group of well-connected senators provide a window…
