House committee chairs: You get what you pay for

I find this outrageous. But again, hardly shocking:
(Via Guardian.co.uk) From energy to farming, the source of campaign cash matches perfectly the responsibilities of the new chairs of the US Congress’s powerful committees
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111th Congress Added More Debt Than First 100 Congresses Combined

Sigh:
via CNS: The federal government has accumulated more new debt–$3.22 trillion ($3,220,103,625,307.29)—during the tenure of the 111th Congress than it did during the first 100 Congresses combined, according to official debt figures published by …

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