Best of Whiteboard: Wealth of Congress

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Best of Whiteboard: Wealth of Congress

By Thomas McKinless

Posted April 28, 2016 at 2:48pm

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Roll Call Senior Editor David Hawkings discusses how members’ net worth has changed over the years, and how so many of them became super rich in the first place.

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