US Congresspeople don’t make a lot of money in salary—most make $174,000/yr. They could easily make several times that much as consultants.
They could? I was rather under the impression that the consulting was only because of the Congressional job, and were conditional on the job. Unless you meant, ‘long-time incumbents don’t make much salary, although they have stockpiled a great deal of quid-pro-quo and could make use of the revolving door, and could quit at any time’, which seems like a much less strong incentive...
They could? I was rather under the impression that the consulting was only because of the Congressional job, and were conditional on the job. Unless you meant, ‘long-time incumbents don’t make much salary, although they have stockpiled a great deal of quid-pro-quo and could make use of the revolving door, and could quit at any time’, which seems like a much less strong incentive...