View Full Version : 50 Richest Members of Congress
RAMSTORIA
09-22-2008, 03:40 PM
http://www.rollcall.com/features/Guide-to-Congress_2008/guide/28506-1.html?type=printer_friendly
Some higlights...
John Kerry is #1
John McCain is #13 (he'd be higher if they counted his wife)
Nancy Pelosi is #17
Hillary Clinton is #29
glad to see many members in congress are so relateable. im not sure where barack obama is, but his book sold like hot cakes last year and supposedly made about 4 million.
thrustbucket
09-22-2008, 03:44 PM
If you counted spouses, Kerry would likely be 1 by several miles, followed by Pelosi.
GuilewasNK
09-22-2008, 03:49 PM
35. Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.)
$7.81 million
Woah. From the ashes of a crappy NFL career to political success. Good for him.
Dr Mario Kart
09-22-2008, 04:14 PM
Since houses, cars, airplanes and the like arent counted, they shouldve come up with a rough count of how many of those are at least present.
mykevermin
09-22-2008, 07:17 PM
Since houses, cars, airplanes and the like arent counted, they shouldve come up with a rough count of how many of those are at least present.
Bingo.
This is a crappy measure of wealth, IMO. And definitely spouses should be counted.
KETCHUP PRINCE STAYS AT NUMBER 1!!!
Cheese
09-22-2008, 08:07 PM
If you counted Cindy's beer money, McCain would be number 4. Nice. What a wonderful country we live in when a rich, old white man can accuse a black guy from Chicago of being an elitist and it sticks; truly an enlightened age of reason!*
* totally swiped from an Onion bit
CaseyRyback
09-22-2008, 08:10 PM
35. Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.)
$7.81 million
Woah. From the ashes of a crappy NFL career to political success. Good for him.
I don't know what business he is in, but supposedly the textbook I have for my one PS class states that he has a fairly successful one.
ITDEFX
09-23-2008, 08:15 AM
Aren't they all rich?
If you counted Cindy's beer money, McCain would be number 4. Nice. What a wonderful country we live in when a rich, old white man can accuse a black guy from Chicago of being an elitist and it sticks; truly an enlightened age of reason!*
* totally swiped from an Onion bit
You mean like how a guy who couldn't even be bothered to show up for Nation Guard duty in Texas when the war was in Viet Nam was painted as a "war hero," when the Purple Heart winning Special Forces veteran was the coward? Yeah. One day, I'd like to live in a country where things like "facts" and "reality" mean something.