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Millionaires

'Congress not only seems more responsive to policy desires of the very rich, but increasingly they are the very rich. They probably know far fewer people cut off by the failure to extend unemployment benefits, and that makes them less sensitive to just how much damage that cutoff is going to cause.'

Josh Bivens, director of research at
the Economic Policy Institute,
commenting on the report that
or the first time in history, more
than half the members of the House
and Senate are millionaires

New York Times
January 10, 2014

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