More than half of the members of US Congress are now millionaires. According to personal financial disclosure data filed last year and analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics, at least 268 members of the House of Representatives and the Senate had an average net worth of $1 million or more in 2012. The data, filed in May last year for the 530 members of Congress at the time, put their median net worth at $1,008,767, an increase on the previous years figure of $966,000. According to OpenSecrets, at least one of the Congressional members elected since the disclosure data was filed is also a millionaire. Wealthiest Republican Darrell Issa had a net value of $464 million in 2012
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