[Vision2020] Wealthiest members of Congress have prospered since recession

[Art Deco]

*Washington Post*;

Wealthiest members of Congress have prospered since
recession<http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/0H2RO6/S3YI86/08DVK3/R9DPMI/YHKTRG/QR/h?a=http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/capitol-assets-congresss-wealthiest-mostly-shielded-in-deep-recession/2012/10/06/5a70605c-102f-11e2-acc1-e927767f41cd_story.html>The
wealthiest one-third of lawmakers were largely immune from the Great
Recession, taking the fewest financial hits and watching their investments
quickly recover and rise to new heights. But more than 20 percent of the
members of the current Congress — 121 lawmakers — appeared to be worse off
in 2010 than they had been six years earlier, and 24 saw their reported
wealth slide into negative territory.

Those findings emerge from an ongoing examination of congressional finances
by The Washington Post, which analyzed thousands of financial disclosure
forms and public records for all members of Congress.

Read more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/capitol-assets-congresss-wealthiest-mostly-shielded-in-deep-recession/2012/10/06/5a70605c-102f-11e2-acc1-e927767f41cd_story.html<http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/0H2RO6/S3YI86/08DVK3/R9DPMI/409O17/QR/h?a=http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/capitol-assets-congresss-wealthiest-mostly-shielded-in-deep-recession/2012/10/06/5a70605c-102f-11e2-acc1-e927767f41cd_story.html>

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