While the rest of America is occupying Wall Street or just preoccupied with paying the bills, Congress is
doing all right:
Members of Congress had a collective net worth of more than $2 billion in 2010, a nearly 25 percent increase over the 2008 total, according to a Roll Call analysis of Members' financial disclosure forms. [...]
These wealth totals vastly underestimate the actual net worth of Members of Congress because they are based on an accounting system that does not include homes and other non-income-generating property, which is likely to tally hundreds of millions of uncounted dollars. In addition, Roll Call's tally is based on the minimum values of assets reported by Members on their annual financial disclosure forms; the true values of those assets may be much higher.
Of course this doesn't mean they're all richer than God. Troublemakers in Congress who have hundreds of millions of dollars raise the average for the rest of the poor saps, but with a median net worth of $513,000, don't expect them to be occupying anything but their perches on Capitol Hill anytime soon.