Possible congressional family businesses

Cit­i­zen jour­nal­ists inves­ti­gat­ed 438 mem­bers of US Con­gress, and ten­ta­tive­ly found 19 spous­es who were paid by a member’s cam­paign com­mit­tee-totalling some $637,424 since Jan­u­ary 1, 2005. These mem­bers of Con­gress are giv­ing our tax dol­lars to their wives. An inter­est­ing exper­i­ment in net­worked jour­nal­ism.