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Have lawmakers helped themselves while assisting the country? Following the nation's financial meltdown led Congress to unprecedented economical involvement, The Washington Post began a study that pierced the secrecy of the deeply flawed financial disclosure system that governs the 535 women and men who draft the nation's laws. Participants of Congress aimed huge amount of money to infrastructure assignments near their residences and businesses, in some instances paving roads before their properties. They made major deals in the stocks and options of companies pressing them for legislation. They composed laws favoring business in which these were spent. They sponsored charges which their own family were paid to lobby. All of it is legal under the rules Congress has written for itself. Democracy Inc. shows the consequences of the system.
