Congress: The millionaire's club
Posted: Thursday, September 03, 2009 9:09 AM by Domenico Montanaro
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The Hill does its "Rich List." John Kerry (D-MA), Darrell Issa (R-NJ) and Jane Harman (D-CA), it says, are the richest members of Congress. The top 10 by net worth in the millions: 1) Kerry $167.8, 2) Issa: $164.7, 3) Harman: $112.2, 4) Jay Rockefeller (D-WV): $80.4, 5) Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO): $71.2, 6) Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL): $50.2, 7) Rep. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA): $43.6, 8) Rep. Harry Teague (D-NM): $40.3, 9) Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX): $38.2, 10) Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL): $31. (Here's the full list.)
The DCCC has a new Web video that highlights some of the comments that Republicans and conservatives like Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Michael Steele have made about health care. “Since Congressional Republicans and their right wing allies can’t win with the facts on health care, they’ve resorted to using fear, fiction, and scare tactics of the worst kind to shamelessly try and ‘kill’ health insurance reform,” DCCC spokesman Ryan Rudominer says. “This new Web video is just another way that we are exposing their lies and over-the-top rhetoric while empowering our grassroots supporters to hold them accountable for trying to deny families quality, affordable health care.”
