Special Report

Capitol Assets

A Washington Post examination of the intersection between the personal
finances of lawmakers and their work on Capitol Hill. View the series.

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...

Members of Congress trade in companies while making laws that affect those same firms

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

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