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Press Herald - Rep. Chellie Pingree, a Democrat representing Maine’s 1st Congressional District, wants to ban federal lawmakers from making personal financial trades that could conflict with their public service. But Pingree admitted this week that she failed to properly disclose a sizable purchase of U.S. Treasury securities worth between $90,000 and $300,000 in February.
Reactions - I don’t understand the problem with buying US Treasuries or the need to disclose such things — if people on the board of Coke want to buy Coke, fine. It’s when they want to buy stock in Pepsi that we need to worry. SO I don’t have a problem with any federal official who wants to invest in US Treasury securities at all. There’s no conflict of interest. It’s when they’re buying and trading Exxon/Boeing/Tesla etc. that there’s a problem. - John Gear (he/him/his)