For the first time in history, the majority of members of Congress are millionaires.
We’re also witnessing the the most corrupt US government we’ve ever seen.
Gee, think there could be a connection?
For the first time in history, a majority of lawmakers in Congress are millionaires at a time when Americans feel that Congress and those in the “Boomtown” that is Washington, D.C. are becoming more removed from their everyday lives.
According to a Center for Responsive Politics’s analysis of “the personal financial disclosure data from 2012 of the 534 current members,” 268 lawmakers in Congress had an average net worth of at least $1 million. That was up from 257 from the year before.The Center for Responsive Politics found that the “median net worth for all House members was $896,000 (Democrats averaged $929,000 to Republicans’ $884,000) and, for Senators, $2.5 million.” In the Senate, “the median net worth for Senate Democrats was $1.7 million, down from $2.4 million in 2011; for Republicans: $2.9 million, up from $2.5 million in 2011.” According to the report, “the median for congressional Democrats was $1.04 million and, for Republicans, $1 million.”
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is the wealthiest lawmaker in Congress with a reported average net worth of $464 million in 2012 and the “least-wealthy member was Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.), who reported an average net worth of negative $12.1 million.” According to the Center, Valadao is in debt “due to loans for his family’s dairy farm.”
To calculate the net worth of members of Congress, “the Center added together members’ significant assets, such as corporate bonds and stocks, then subtracted major liabilities such as loans, credit card debt and property mortgages.” The average net worth of each lawmaker in Congress can be found here.
Vote them out!
The Brinks Truck will not follow the Hurst to your grave site Nancy
Not the first time, nor is it a majority. But a good many likely are corrupt and immoral/amoral–along with the general population–rich, poor, and in between.
THEY ARE MILLIONAIRES AND WE, THE TAX PAYERS ARE POORER! NANCY COMES FROM A LONG LINE OF THIS ILK!!!!
I’d like to slap that smile right off her face!
Me Too
and the taxpayers made them all that way. again, I hope the democrats are proud.
Time to change this c**p
300,000,000 strong and WE the PEOPLE could change that, stand together and it can be done. But if we keep fighting the black man, and the brown man, and the yellow man, lets not forget the red man. WE the PEOPLE have just about have the red man extinct. Here is a fact I want you to look up or ask a man from ww2 who is still alive, the statue of the flag being set on IWO JIMA the man at the base of the flag was a red man, and to this day they refuse to recognize that fact. Do not HATE,RELATE.
Well duh, there is all kinds of money flowing under the tables in congress. Where have your brains been?