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    How Did Members of Congress Get So Wealthy?

    The highest net worth on Capitol Hill is nearly $360 million—and that’s before you even get to the Rockefeller heir.
    by Noah J. Gordon Sep 09, 2014 3 minutes
    Source: J. Scott Applewhite/AP

    Congress is rich. How rich? On Monday, Roll Call released its annual analysis of financial-disclosure forms, identifying the 50 richest members of Congress, and this isn’t an easy club to get into—it takes a minimum net worth of $7.4 million to crack this year’s list. So who has the most Benjamins? Darrell, Nancy, or Mitch? Here’s what the list tells us about our legislators.

    Members of Congress are way wealthier than average Americans.

    For the second year in a row, Representative

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