Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner Wins Lottery For Third Time

In January 1998, Sensenbrenner won $250,000 on a D.C. Lottery ticket, purchased on December 18, 1997 at Congressional Liquors, the liquor store on Capitol Hill. He won $1,000 in the Wisconsin Lottery in the spring of 2007, and he won another $1,000 in that state's Super 2nd Chance lottery in September, 2007.

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He is the millionaire heir to the Kimberly-Clark fortune, which is responsible for Kleenex and Scott paper towels. He is reportedly worth over $11 million. Sensenbrenner has the fourth-highest amount of investment in oil stocks and was the top-ranking House member in terms of travel costs paid by private interests from 2001 to mid-2005. In 2005, he reported more privately funded travel than any other member of Congress.