have been phenomenally successful trading stock at the peak of the wall street crisis senator spencer backus made hands of thousands of dollars betting against the market that he's a media helps oversee and he's the ranking member on the house committee on financial services. chris miller a top energy policy adviser to the senate majority leader harry reid nearly doubled his bat when his boss helped pass legislation that wound up benefiting the fur after his staff or his name was mentioned in a list of capitol hill stock traders mr reid reprimanded his eight. pocono spoke with chris meller. my attempts to talk to some of those involved were time consuming and unsuccessful. we talk a lot about exporting democracy one of the bedrocks of a successful democracy i believe is freedom from corruption the sense that elected officials are elected to serve the public not to and hence their own wallets or that of their friends or cronies or family congressman brian baird offered a bill that would ban insider trading on capitol hill years ago but the act received the support of phone the nine out of fou