What is Rahm Emanuel's Jared Kushner rule and ethics reform plan?

Rahm Emanuel wants Democrats to clean up all three branches of government. His package would ban stock trading and prediction-market betting by officials, require blind trusts, and add term limits or a retirement age. What he calls the Jared Kushner rule would bar foreign money while in government and for two years after leaving, aimed at payments from countries such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

• Emanuel says hearings should end in legislation that acts on what the hearings found.
• Emanuel pitches the package as proof to Republican and independent voters that they got the change they voted for.

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