Walking thru the Art Gallery of Ontario with a friend, she commented on
the wall of contributors as we were leaving. I said, off-handedly, it
was a "wall of people with too much money." She said it was _because_ of
these people that we had just enjoyed a couple hours. I said that was
technically tr
House Discloses Itself to Be Poorer Sibling of the Senate
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
New York Times
WASHINGTON, June 16 Compared with the millionaires' club in the
Senate, many leaders in the House of Representatives have wealth more in
line with that of successful middle managers, according to t
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Slicing off the top
if I may be mechanical in my application of Marxism, this might explain the petty-bourgeois shrillness of the House, as opposed to the more lordly demeanor of the Senate.
Of course, such behavioral differences are also encouraged by the length of the
> "Devine, James" wrote:
>
> if I may be mechanical in my application of Marxism, this might
> explain the petty-bourgeois shrillness of the House, as opposed to the
> more lordly demeanor of the Senate.
>
> Of course, such behavioral differences are also encouraged by the
> length of the terms (2
