A senator who ran a multimillion-dollar plumbing business claimed he only took a $50,000 salary. His [View all]
His financial statements show otherwise.
A Republican senator drastically understated how much money he made in the private sector as he argued with the head of the Teamsters union at a hearing in Washington on Wednesday.
While lambasting Teamsters president Sean O'Brien for his nearly $200,000 salary, Oklahoma's Senator Markwayne Mullin claimed that he paid himself a salary of just $50,000 when he ran a plumbing business. But his financial disclosures show his salary was nearly $92,000 in 2012, the year he was first elected to Congress. His total income was even greater.
"What did you make when you owned your company?" O'Brien asked.
"When I made my company? I kept my salary down at about $50,000 a year because I invested every penny into it," Mullin replied.
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Of course he's a Republican.