Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) has slammed his colleagues in Congress who engage in insider trading, saying they should be "on Wall Street" instead of on Capitol Hill.
"Americans understand what's going on with Congress," Burchett said Sunday on the "Cats Roundtable" radio show hosted by John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM. "When they see their members of Congress making three, four, 500 percent returns, dadgum it, they ought not be in Congress, they ought to be on Wall Street."
Burchett called it wrong and said "everybody knows it, and I think it's crooked as a dog's leg, and we need to outlaw it."
On Sept. 3, a bipartisan group of legislators introduced a bill that would ban stock trading by members of Congress and their close family members.
The "Restore Trust in Congress Act" mixes toget