Congressional Seats Sell for Record Four Billion Dollars

Click here to access article by Andy Borowitz from The New Yorker. (satire)

The seats, which include four hundred and thirty-five in the House of Representatives and thirty-six in the Senate, have attracted buyers from a broad spectrum of industries, including investment banking, energy, pharmaceutical, and gun.

This article is listed as satire, but is it really? The Center for Responsive Politics have projected the total campaign contributions for these seats in the recent election to be $3.67 billion--that's rather close to this piece's "satire". According to Google's definition:

sat·ire: noun - the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.