As soon as you get elected, you go to orientation in D.C. before you get sworn in, and they have an ethics class, and they go over everything with you, and they say, hey, look, they said, you know, You can't have any other source of income, you know, as a congressman, except for the only exception is you can write a book and you can get royalties. or, you know, you get, you know, money from the book that you write. And really, like, be honest with you, most people that come to Congress, a large part of them, they're independently wealthy when they get there. (01:10–01:18)
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Asserts that congressmen cannot have other sources of income except book royalties.
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