Posted on 10/14/2006 1:32:09 PM PDT by dennisw
Rank Name Minimum Net Worth Maximum Net Worth
1 Herb Kohl (D-Wis) $269,098,030 $284,549,005
2 Henry M. Paulson $190,727,085 $392,934,024
3 Jane Harman (D-Calif) $168,651,649 $289,045,000
4 John Kerry (D-Mass) $164,741,510 $234,262,099
5 Darrell Issa (R-Calif) $135,862,098 $677,230,000
6 Robin Hayes (R-NC) $92,832,334 $181,295,169
7 Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa) $78,150,023 $101,579,003
8 Samuel W. Bodman III $66,698,060 $117,179,012
9 Donald H. Rumsfeld $62,090,106 $199,687,011
10 Charles H. Taylor (R-NC) $56,056,017 $77,341,000
11 William H. Donaldson $46,306,152 $191,419,025
12 Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) $43,343,464 $98,660,021
13 Lincoln D. Chafee (R-RI) $41,153,105 $64,096,019
14 Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) $38,198,170 $90,733,019
15 John McCain (R-Ariz) $25,071,142 $38,043,014
16 Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) $19,978,175 $67,170,000
17 Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) $19,189,049 $93,043,004
18 Dick Cheney $17,120,041 $79,588,010
19 John Campbell (R-Calif) $17,004,087 $77,512,000
20 Kenny Ewell Marchant (R-Texas) $15,774,147 $55,312,000
21 Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) $15,087,070 $61,131,000
22 Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) $14,746,108 $55,085,000
23 Jim Cooper (D-Tenn) $14,116,811 $30,725,757
24 Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) $13,508,152 $49,829,007
25 Michael McCaul (R-Texas) $13,267,113 $58,330,000
I don't have any facts in front of me but Elizabeth Dole is from Salisbury, NC which produced many millionaires from the Food Town, Food Lion inception growth. Her family might very well have been part of that.
Many of the local people put a modest investment in and are wealthy today.
Dana Carvey made a great president.
They worked hard and played by the rules.
(China's rules, N. Korea's rules, Malaysia's rules, etc...)
OK, thanks.
I remember seeing Harry S. Truman mowing his own lawn in Independence, MO. IIRC, there was no presidential pension back then, or if there was, it was minimal.
Mark
But they can relate to the rest of us,sure.
How did Rummy make his fortune? Also, I don't understand how someone can be either worth only 90 million, or as much as 300. Does wealth really fluctuate that much?
24 Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) $13,508,152 $49,829,007
I can't fathom how these people can accumulate this kind of wealth LEGALLY while I'm helping to pay their salaries. Given the number of millionaires in the house and senate, maybe its time to make these bastards work for free with no pension benefits either.......But thats not likely to happen considering they are the ones who have the say-so on their own salaries.....
ONE TERM LIMITS THEN YOU'RE OUT OF THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All sorts of "special deals" come their way, and they take advantage of them. I believe Tom Coburn will leave the Senate when he promised without increasing his wealth by using his position. He is a unique exception.
It HAS to be inherited. From what I've read, the guy is so dumb that he was confined to shoeing horses until his parents died.
How much has actually become law?
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