Just an FYI, the original Congress were lawmakers that lived in their own states and traveled once per year to do the lawmaking stuff. Essentially, it was not a full time job--they were intended to have other jobs at the time, making the bulk of their money from private firms rather than public firms.Then ***** got rather complicated :PHowever, the key point to note here isn't that there are millionaires in Congress--it's that there is such a large discrepancy.Noted at the bottom is a point to keep from all of this: Levinthal notes that "in some cases, [lawmakers'] wealth is being derived from the very companies that in many cases benefit from the taxpayers." "The top companies at which members of Congress are investing, many of them are TARP recipients that have received billions and billions of dollars from you and me," he said. So really, this is information we already knew.