I would like to see their wealth when they entered congress as it progressed through the years until the present.
I always wondered how is it someone can enter congress with a civilian salary of say 150 thousand per year, and leave congress within ten years later a multi millionaire, is it any wonder they want to stay for forty years.
Short answer: TSP.
Thrift Savings Plan. All Federal employees were allowed to enroll in it after 1985 or so, when Civil Service Retirement was replaced by Social Security as the retirement plan for Fed employees.
It’s basically a way to invest in a PRIVATE retirement plan, and that’s why the Congress critters who have made a killing with insider trading info re the stock market don’t want to see interest rates go up.
Betcha old timers like Dodds and Frank made MILLIONS through their TSP accounts!
Heck, I knew a Postal worker who made $50,000 in 7 years!!!