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Capitol Assets

A Washington Post examination of the intersection between the personal
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Capitol Assets Scorecard

Congressional relatives lobby on bills before...

Wealthiest in Congress prosper since recession

A close-up look at congressional wealth

Lawmakers can benefit from bills they back

Congress’s financial winners and losers

Congressional ethics committees protect legislators...

The 25 richest and 25 poorest members of...

How we calculated lawmakers’ assets

Trading stocks they can influence

Graphic: Overlapping interests?

Lawmakers moved assets amid crisis talks

Explore the transactions

Selling stock amid Senate probe

Helping institutions with family ties

Congressional earmarks sometimes used to...

Lawmakers reworked financial portfolios after talks with Fed, Treasury officials

By Kimberly Kindy, Scott Higham, David S. Fallis and Dan Keating,

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