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The members of the House of Representatives receive a travel allowance that averages over 1.3 million dollars to travel to and from Washington D.C. That adds up to a grand total of 565 million dollars. They are each paid $174,000 which adds another 75 millions to the cost of doing business. The final insult is that they spend an average of 11 million dollars each on running the Congressional Office. compensation and while spending an average of 11 million dollars a year to run their offices. It costs us an outrageous total of nearly 5 billion dollars to fund Congress.
The average Congressman spends a total of nearly 12.5 million dollars of our money every year to sustain their opulent life style.
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