Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown introduced legislation last year to ban members of Congress and their staff from trading stock based on non-public information. Brown championed the cause after watching author Peter Schweizer discuss his book on the subject called "Throw Them All Out" on "60 Minutes."
Schweizers analysis focused on members of Congress whose stock market profits correlated with legislative matters under their consideration. One of the politicians cited in the book for apparent "insider trading" was Bay State Sen. John Kerry, who has vehemently denied making stock trades based on non-public information.
Kerry, who raised eyebrows when pictures of him surfaced this week with two black eyes reportedly from a hockey injury, demanded a retraction from Schweizer and his publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Schweizer rejected the call for a retraction, saying "you cant retract facts."