Kansas City area Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler, one of a half-dozen Republican candidates running for the US Senate in Missouri, tells Marc Cox that she's the only one who can, "hit the ground running, day one."
Hartzler joined Cox in-studio while visiting St Louis this week, and reminded him that she's, "a lifelong conservative, fighting and winning for our values. This is a crisis. I could run for re-election in my district, I love my district, they've been wonderful to me, I feel honored. But Missouri now, has to step-up collectively, we've go to hold this seat in strong Republican hands."
One issue that Hartzler is focused on is the issue of members of Congress trading stocks while they hold office, the Ban Stock Trading for Members of Congress Act.
"This is ridiculous, the trust in Congress is [at] an all-time low. People who are elected to office should be public servants, they shouldn't be able to financially benefit, and yet we have over 135 members of Congress who are buying and selling individual stocks at the same time they are participating in classified briefings. They're controlling legislation that oversees a lot of companies and industries," says Hartzler, "it's just wrong."
"If you have individual stocks, you need to put them in a blind-trust or you need to divest them, or just have mutual funds like ordinary Americans, but you shouldn't be buying and selling individual stocks," says Hartzler.
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