by
Jeff Spross
Rep. Jane Harman, Democrat from California, served as chairman of a subcommittee overseeing aspects of homeland security and intelligence in 2008. During that same period, she disclosed over $1 million in holdings in companies involved in those same fields, making her one of many lawmakers to invest in the same industries they are tasked with regulating.
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Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent for The Week, an economics and climate reporter for ThinkProgress, and has written for the policy journal Democracy. More by Jeff Spross
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