Two U.S. senators pose questions about Department of Labor lock-ups

For the record, I thought I should link to these two recent reports of U.S. senators asking for lock-up related information from the Department of Labor.

• On May 10, the Wall Street Journal reported that Missouri’s Republican Senator Roy Blunt was raising concerns over the Labor Department’s move to change the procedures for journalists to report on market-sensitive economic data, saying the new rules could disrupt financial markets.
• A week later, Bloomberg reported on May 17 that Maine’s Republican Senator, Susan Collins, had asked the Labor Department to probe what she called unusual trading activity prior to a report on employment in April.