From techPresident:
Senator Scott Brown, Republican of Massachusetts is distributing video of a brief interaction he had with President Barack Obama after the State of the Union where he says that he will tell Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to move on Brown’s insider trading bill. During Obama’s speech, the president asked for legislation barring lawmakers from acting on information for their own financial benefit if it’s information they’ve gleaned by dint of serving in Congress.
The video contains not just the presidential encounter, but the Fox News play-by-play as well.
We’ll see how much inside influence Brown turns out to have.
The president gives his State of the Union addressing calling for a ban on insider trading for members of Congress. Afterwards, Brown asks Obama to request that the bill be moved forward. The president just highlighted it in his speech, for Chrissakes! Isn’t that the point?
Methinks Brown is going to claim all the credit for himself rather than giving a lot to the president and his bully pulpit.