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46. Ibid., 13.

47. Ibid., 18.

48. Ronald J. Pestritto and William J. Atto, American Progressivism: A Reader (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2008), 274.

49. Urofsky, Louis D. Brandeis, 326.

50. Johnson and Kwak, 13 Bankers, 1.

51. Pestritto and Atto, American Progressivism, 216.

52. Committee for Economic Development, “Investing in the People’s Business: A Business Proposal for Campaign Finance Reform” (1999), 1.

53. Ibid.

Chapter 13. How So Little Money Makes Things Worse

1. Ilya Zemtsov, The Encyclopedia of Soviet Life (Transaction Publishers, 1991), 177; John Löwenhart, James R. Ozinga, and Erik van Ree, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo (London: UCL Press, 1992), 118.

2. Matthew Eric Glassman and Erin Hemlin, “Average Years of Service for Members of the Senate and House of Representatives, 1st–111th Congresses, Cong. Res. Service (Nov. 2, 2010), available at link #169.

3. James R. Ozinga, Thomas W. Casstevens, and Harold T. Casstevens II, “The Circulation of Elites: Soviet Politburo Members, 1919–1987,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 22 (1989): 609, 614

4. Norman Ornstein, “District of Corruption,” The New Republic, available at link #170.

5. Lisa Rein, “Federal Officials Fight Back over Criticism About Salaries,” Washington Post, Aug. 17, 2010, available at link #171 (describing debate about higher pay for federal officials).

6. Erika Lovley, “Report: 237 Millionaires in Congress,” Politico (Nov. 6, 2009), available at link #172; Center for Responsive Politics, OpenSecrets.org, Personal Finance Disclosure, available at link #173.

7. Eric Jackson, “Evan Bayh: Hypocrisy on the Public Option,” TheStreet (Oct. 29, 2009), available at link #174.

8. Editorial, “Wife’s WellPoint Conflict Puts Bayh’s Interests in Question,” Indianapolis Star, May 25, 2009, A13.

9. Leadership PACS, Open Secrets.org, available at link #175.

10. Birnbaum, The Money Men, 233–34. This is still possible under the current ethics rules. H. Comm. on Standards of Official Conduct, 110th Cong., House Ethics Manual 47–48 (Comm. Print 2008), available at link #176.

11. “Leadership PACs: PAC Contributions to Federal Candidates,” Center for Responsive Politics (April 25, 2011), available at link #177.

12. See R. Jeffrey Smith, “Money Intended to Help Candidates Often Ends Up Funding PACs Themselves,” Washington Post, June 2, 2010, available at link #178.

13. Marcus Stern and Jennifer LaFleur, “Leadership PACs: Let the Good Times Roll,” ProPublica (Sept. 26, 2009), available at link #179.

14. Prime Minister’s Public Service Division, Press Release, “Modest Year-End Payments for Civil Servants” (Nov. 26, 2009), available at link #180.

15. Daniel Schuman, “What’s the Average Salary of House Staff?” Open House Project (Dec. 2, 2009), available at link #181; Erika Lovley, “2,000 House Staffers Make Six Figures,” Politico (Mar. 26, 2010), available at link #182.

16. William P. Barrett, “There’s Something About Mary,” Forbes, Mar. 11, 2009, available at link #183; “Securities and Exchange Commission Salaries,” Simply Hired (accessed Sept. 16, 2010), available at link #184.

17. “Salaries in Investment Banking,” available at link #185.

18. Though the issue is not uncontested. See Eugene Kiely, “Are Federal Workers Overpaid? Both Sides in Great Pay Debate Are Misleading the Public,” FactCheck.org (Dec. 1, 2010), available at link #186.

19. See generally Keith A. Bender and John S. Heywood, “Out of Balance? Comparing Public and Private Sector Compensation over 20 Years” (2010), available at link #187.

20. Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, “The Road to Riches Is Called K Street,” Washington Post, June 22, 2005, available at link #188; Jeanne Cummings, “The Gilded Capital: Lobbying to Riches,” Politico (June 26, 2007), available at link #189; Arthur Delaney and Ryan Grim, “On K Street, an Ex-Senate Staffer Is Worth $740,000 a Year,” Huffington Post (Sept. 24, 2010), available at link #190.

21. Ornstein, “District of Corruption,” 1.

22. See a comparable case of Joel Oswald, who