(The fourth poorest Senator in the 110th Congress (now a former Senator) leveraged the value of his house. Just like many of us did. Except maybe a lot more than the rest of us did. - promoted by The Big E)
{First, a cheap plug for my blog Senate Guru.}
According to the TreasuryDirect website, when Norm Coleman was sworn in as a Senator on January 7, 2003, the national debt was $6,387,381,983,103.35. When Coleman's term ended on January 3, 2009, the national debt was $10,627,961,295,930.67. Of course, Coleman wasn't singularly responsible by any means for the $4.24 trillion increase in the national debt in his six years in office, but he was an avid supporter of the George W. Bush economic policies that led to the rapid increase in the national debt.
Well, it seems that as debt-happy as former Senator Norm Coleman was with your tax dollars, private citizen Norm Coleman has been even more debt-happy with his own finances:
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