If the best defense you have, is that it's relatively speaking, not much money? That is not a defense at all. If it's not much money, all the more reason that she should have sold her stock in Vulcan, prior to accepting a cabinet position, where she would have influence over what government contracts that Vulcan was able to secure. There is no defense for this... especially so, in not disclosing her stock holding during her Senate confirmation hearing. Her husband, the Senate Majority Leader, does not come away from this looking like he cares anything about ethics either.