Sen Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) $99.1 million
Jay Rockefeller wasn’t about to lose his family fortune during the Great Recession. His net worth dropped a mere 3 percent from 2004, from $101.7 million in 2004 to $99.1 million in 2010. Paul Rosenzweig of the Heritage Foundation wrote in a blog last month, “In a remarkable letter to all Fortune 500 CEOs, Senator Jay Rockefeller bemoans the business community's opposition to his cybersecurity legislation, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012. He is shocked – simply shocked, as was Captain Renaut in Casablanca – that any business institution could possibly oppose more government red tape when 'security' is on the line.”
