Debt +$39.5T since 1975

• In Congress since Ford was president — 51 years
• Would have been termed out in 1987 under a 12-year cap
• Ranking fixture on Judiciary and Finance — the job is the identity

Est. $8M

Debt +$37.6T since 1987

• 39 years in the House. Speaker twice. Retiring in 2027
• Household portfolio return of 16,930% from 1987–2024 — beating the S&P 500 by ~581%
• Trades flow through spouse Paul Pelosi; disclosures are ranges, not a confession

Est. $114M · grew in office

Retiring 2026 — the seat was the career

Debt +$38.2T since 1985

• Last seen in public June 11, 2026. Last voted the same day. Hospitalized June 14 after a fall
• 41 years in the Senate. The deal always gets done — until the man who cuts it disappears
• Office photos from a hospital bed are not a public appearance. The salary still clears

Est. $35M · grew in office

Unseen since June 11 — 75 days

Retiring 2026 — the seat was the career

Debt +$39T since 1981

• 45 years in Congress — House in 1981, Senate since 1999
• The other half of the McConnell handshake on spending, aid, and continuing resolutions
• Viral $75M net-worth memes were debunked; the record is tenure and the machine, not a secret fortune

Est. $1.2M

Debt +$39T since 1981

• 45 years in the House — elected the same week Reagan was inaugurated
• King of the earmark. Appropriations is a career, not a tour of duty
• Would have been gone by 1993 under a 12-year cap

Debt +$39T since 1981

• 45 years. Democratic whip / leader for a generation
• The institutional memory of the House — which is another way to say the institution never turns over
• Still in the well after four and a half decades

Debt +$34.6T since 1997

• 29 years. The Senate's designated 'moderate' — until the whip count needs her
• Yes on the 2021 infrastructure bill, CHIPS, and repeated omnibus packages
• Maine's insurance policy for whatever leadership already decided

Debt +$38.6T since 1983

• 43 years in Congress. Majority/Minority Whip as a lifestyle
• Judiciary power broker. The calendar moves when he does
• Would have been termed out in 1995

Debt +$33.8T since 2002

• Appointed by her father. Kept the seat with a write-in after losing her own primary
• The vote leadership buys when the conference is one short
• Yes on infrastructure, CHIPS, and the spending bargains that never shrink

Debt +$35.6T since 1993

• 33 years. President pro tempore. Appropriations chair
• Writes the 'bipartisan' spending packages the rest of the country never reads
• The other signature on the deal

Debt +$35T since 1995

• Lindsey Graham died July 11. Three days later the governor gifted the seat to his sister
• No prior elected office. The name was the qualification
• A Graham has held a House or Senate desk since 1995 — 31 years, then an inheritance. She is running to keep it

Appointed — the seat was the inheritance

Debt +$39.4T since 1976

• 50 years in Congress — House in 1976, Senate since 2013
• Outlasted Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump
• A 12-year cap would have sent him home before the first compact disc