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That's only for investments which they held prior to entering Congress, the idea being that they not be aware of what those investments are so as to not influence their actions while in Congress. And my understanding is that blind trusts are not even mandatory, that it's only something that people have done so as to remove the impression that they are enriching themselves by their government service. if they don't come the next election their opponents can use it against them so everybody does it to avoid problems later on.
However what they learn after being elected as the result of official business is not a violation of any law or regulation (enforced or otherwise). But if they can't access those investments or any funds in them, this might limit the amount of money they would have on hand to invest, but there have been reports that the amount of day-trading going on by Congressional staff members is outrageous and there have been recommendations that some rules need to be put into place, but whenever it comes-up the claim is that as long as they are trading on information they learned while conducting official business, that any attempt to interfere would be unconstitutional since this would make one branch of government, the Legislature, accountable to another, the Executive branch since that's where the Justice Department resides.
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