The Criminal Class

America's Criminal Class: The Congress of the United States. First in a Series: "America, Mark Twain once said (in paraphrase), is a nation without a distinct criminal class 'with the possible exception of Congress.'

If anything, the Congress of today is even worse than it was in Twain's time more than a century ago.

The 535 men and women who make up the House and Senate of the United States include, at best, a collection of rogues, con artists and scofflaws. At worst, they comprise, as Twain once observed, a distinct criminal class."