Democrats Win The Net Worth Prize

It gets tiring hearing how Republicans are the rich ones. The Democratic battlecry about wealth needs to be stopped. Here are facts from OpenSecrets.org about the net worth of the Congress and Senate taken together. As you can see out of the top twelve Members of both chambers the highest net worth trophies go to nine Democrats. Only three are Republicans. Democrats win the race when you rachet it down to the top 25. The top twelve are listed below

Minimum Net Average Net Maximum Net
1 Jane Harman (D-Calif) $236,280,153 $397,412,077 $558,544,002
2 Darrell Issa (R-Calif) $160,615,042 $343,457,521 $526,300,001
3 John Kerry (D-Mass) $284,157,594 $336,224,883 $388,292,172
4 Mark Warner (D-Va) $60,591,195 $237,843,092 $415,094,990
5 Herb Kohl (D-Wis) $149,443,028 $200,545,512 $251,647,996
6 Jared Polis (D-Colo) $97,374,113 $175,875,556 $254,377,000
7 Robin Hayes (R-NC) $74,576,347 $173,409,173 $272,241,999
8 Vernon Buchanan (R-Fla) $-69,659,542 $165,748,714 $401,156,971
9 Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) $43,821,041 $103,560,020 $163,298,999
10 Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa) $59,897,019 $93,715,011 $127,533,003
11 Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) $53,326,179 $89,509,099 $125,692,020
12 Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) $52,344,301 $84,171,162 $115,998,023