Yes!  1) Why should they be excluded?  It's a crime for them just as it is for average Americans to steal or use inside information to get rich....or take bribes and kickbacks from corporate America to sway their votes....  2) There are way too many rich Poly-ticks in Washington!  A hundred or two thousand annual salaries and worth multiple millions more when they leave office?  If you can't smell  a dead rat there, you can't smell at all!