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Naming laws after people who did bad stuff you're trying to legislate away or their victims is at least a hundred years old. Only a rabid partisan would complain about a law about insider trading being named after one of the politicans most notorious for it.

Personally I think they names should be more humorous and creative but I think this one is way, way better than stupid contradictory names like the PATRIOT act.

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There are nine members of congress who trade more profitably than her, but for some reason certain people use her as the poster child for this problem.

She became the poster child for it because she's the daughter of a politician who did the same sort of thing.

She's a poster child for "evil congress lizard" the same way that the Kochs and Soros and Murdoch are poster children for "evil billionares" even though there's richer ones.

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