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Alan · Mar 30, 2011

Feels they don't need to be told where they can't park. So they've accumulated some parking tickets...among other violations.

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_101/Parking-Tickets-Members-Congress-204386-1.html

Members Collect Many Unpaid Tickets
By Jennifer Yachnin
Roll Call Staff
March 29, 2011, Midnight
Rep. Bennie Thompson and his chief of staff paid off $860 worth of parking tickets last week after Roll Call brought the outstanding fines to their attention. Print
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Members of Congress have immunity from many routine parking tickets in the District of Columbia, but that doesn’t mean they can’t try to rack up fines.

According to a Roll Call survey of vehicles parked on Capitol Hill and at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, as of mid-March, lawmakers were carrying at least $15,000 in outstanding tickets — ranging from expired meters to speeding camera violations — and potentially thousands of dollars more.

Three-quarters of those tickets, worth about $11,500, were in default at the time of the survey, having gone more than 60 days, and in some cases years, without payment.
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And just for the record, I'll bet it was both parties abusing the system.:tooth:

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