Today, as in Clark's day, the U.S Senate remains a club for millionaires. No longer checked by 'instructions' from state legislatures, senators are also more likely to serve for life than they were before passage of the amendment. 'It is as difficult for a poor man to enter the Senate of the United States as for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven,' Rep. John Corliss of Michigan said in 1898. The newspaper 'Roll Call' found in 2010 that fifty-four of the one hundred senators reported a net worth over $1 million.