A few days ago I wrote about the two longest serving congressmen, which turned into a discussion about term limits.

Today, I noticed this story (via Hot Air, of course) about a federal bribery investigation into Rep. Don Young of Alaska.  He’s #6 on that list of longest serving congressmen, having assumed office in 1973.

Just for fun, let’s look at the top 10:

  1. John Dingell (D-MI), 1955 – Seems pretty clean, actually
  2. John Conyers (D-MI), 1965 – Admitted abusing his power and staffers, His wife is under federal investigation, and has already pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery.
  3. David Obey (D-WI), 1969 – Once got in a shoving match with Maxine Waters, though it’s hard to hold that against him.
  4. Bill Young (R-FL), 1971 – Also seems pretty clean.
  5. Charles Rangel (D-NY), 1971 – Tax Cheat.
  6. Don Young (R-AK), 1973 – That whole bribery thing.
  7. Pete Stark (D-13), 1973 – Lunatic.
  8. John Murtha (D-PA), 1974 – Disgrace, Possible Crook.
  9. George Miller (D-CA), 1975 – Looks Clean
  10. Henry Waxman (D-CA), 1975 – Wrote 434 bad checks for over $100,000 in 1992.  (He’s also the guy behind the extraordinarily destructive pending cap-and-trade bill, but that in and of itself is not corrupt.)

Many links are to Michelle Malkin’s site, since she’s all over the corruption issue.  In fact, she wrote a book about it.  Maybe you should buy it.