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Source #11004

Cryptographic attestation that the document below was captured in Goblin House's archive at the timestamp shown, with the hash listed. If the original URL goes dark or its content changes, this receipt remains as evidence of what the public record looked like at capture time.

TitleSunlight Foundation and Reuters reporting
Original URLhttps://www.oge.gov/Web/oge.nsf/Resources/Stop+Trading+on+Congressional+Knowledge+Act+of+2012+(STOCK+Act)
PublicationDirected Inquiry — Web Search
Source typeweb_search
Date2013-04-11
EntityHarry Reid
Captured2026-04-16T04:49:41.234Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-16T04:49:41.234Z UTC
SHA-256251e83a0abd99a5749b58cf1e419e903a2c0204af8592c818d139d88b75dbcf9
Content length131 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars) 
The 2013 amendment effectively gutted the database requirements, making internet filing portion optional and limiting public access

Verifying this receipt

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sha256( coalesce(url, '<no-url>') || '\n' || raw_content )

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  2. Concatenate url + '\n' + content and SHA-256 it.
  3. Compare to the SHA-256 row above.

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  -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
  --data-binary @document.txt

Companion machine-readable receipt: /source/11004/receipt.json