The Price Tag Of A Congressional Seat
by Christian Stellakis on Jan 31, 2015 | Views: 175 | Score: 0
Raised for the average winning senatorial campaign | Raised for the average winning house member campaign | Median household income | |
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Amount of dollars in 2012... | 10476451 | 1689581 | 52762 |
Sources:
maplight.org
Running for Congress takes guts, determination, and money. Lots of money. In order to secure a seat, the average House Representative has to raise over 1.5 million dollars, while the average Senator needs to procure about seven times that amount! To put that into perspective, the price tag of a Senate seat is about 200 times an average household's yearly income.