And why, God Bless him, Joe Biden Jr. rode the train to work.
Open Secrets.org lists the members of congress by net worth.
Personal Finances is a searchable database page to explore the net worth of each member of congress.
Members of the 111th Congress allows us to see the where our politicians are getting their campaign contributions.
Top Spenders lists the lobbyists spending the most
Rank Congress (2007) Average net worth
1 Jane Harman (D-Cali $397,412,077
2 Darrell Issa (R-Calif) $343,457,521
3 John Kerry (D-Mass) $336,224,883
4 Mark Warner (D-Va) $237,843,092
5 Herb Kohl (D-Wis) $200,545,512
6 Jared Polis (D-Colo) $175,875,556
7 Robin Hayes (R-NC) $173,409,173
8 Vernon Buchanan (R-Fla) $165,748,714
9 Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass $103,560,020
10 Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa) $93,715,011
11 Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) $89,509,099
12 Dianne Feinstein (D-Cali $84,171,162
13 Michael McCaul (R-Texas) $64,073,077
14 Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) $62,468,047
15 James E. Risch (R-Idaho) $56,350,027
16 Bob Corker (R-Tenn) $54,682,020
17 Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N $50,297,547
18 Cynthia Marie Lummis (R-Wyo) $48,417,014
19 Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) $47,350,092
20 Gordon H. Smith (R-Ore) $46,127,014
581 Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del) $-52,493
The more clicking you do at Open Secrets, the clearer it becomes there is a disconnect between congress and the American people - based upon wealth and access to corporate money. Our representative democratic system has devolved into a bicameral house of Lords that is owned and cared for by corporate wealth.
We wonder why redistribution of wealth is not happening in Congress?
The Democratic party and The Republican party are distractions.
There is only the Rich Party which runs the government, and then there is the rest of us.