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Rep. Mary Bono Mack
(Cliff Owen/AP)
Guess they’re not playing “I Got You, Babe” like they used to. A new analysis of congressional wealth, finds that a lot of rich legislators have weathered the recession just fine — but not Rep. Mary Bono Mack, whose assets dropped from $3 million to $848K in six years, largely because her late husband Sonny Bono’s song catalogue isn’t generating the royalties it used to.
Meanwhile: Is Mitt Romney really only worth $250 million? A private-equity guy of his era should be a heck of a lot richer, according to this investment banker.
(Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for the Rumble 2012)
“I believe in Social Security. Do you?”
“Yes.”
“Then we’re both socialists.”
— Scenes from Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly’s “rumble” at GWU, captured by our colleague Dan Zak. Other highlights at The Fix.
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